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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

You’ve got an odd way of analysing elections.

The election was a test of votes Palin could generate verses those 0bama could generate.
That’s how people actually voted when they went to the polls.

No one compartmentalizes an election the way you are suggesting. Supporters of a candidate come out to vote for that candidate. Everyone who wanted to vote for Sarah Palin did. Just like if there was some big Joe Biden fan out there, they would vote for his ticket.

Sarah Palin just didn’t have enough supporters in the end. Not more than 0bama had. He got more people out to the polls than she did. A lot more.

0bama’s supporters outnumbered Sarah Palin’s supporters. His supporters outnumbered Sarah Palin’s supporters and John McCain’s supporters combined. The two of them together couldn’t get enough people out to vote to overcome the number of people 0bama got out to vote. It has nothing to do with Sarah Palin being ‘defeated’ by Joe Biden of all things, and I never came anywhere near suggesting it did.

It was her (and McCain’s) supporters vs. 0bama’s supporters.
She came up short. The votes just weren’t there for her.


536 posted on 07/03/2009 4:04:54 AM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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To: counterpunch
Speaking of “odd ways of analyzing elections”, there has NEVER been an election where the voters chose a President based on who was the V.P. choice. If that were the case, ObaMao would have lost in a landslide.

To somehow pass the responsibility of this last election loss on Sarah Palin is downright ignorant of you. McCain LOST, not Palin. Palin was the only thing that kept McNasty from losing by double digits.

I realize that you will continue to argue the facts, but kindly refrain from responding to this post. For some reason, you see yourself as the ultimate authority on the subject and all other opinions are superseded by your self appointed clarification or analysis.

So, have a great day and see what happens a year or so down the road. Arguing about it so disingenuously here and now is a complete waste of time.

546 posted on 07/03/2009 4:35:42 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Give me LIBERTY or give me an M-24A2!)
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