We will never know IF she would have won as she is not running. Old two timing lord McCain almost won because she was on his ticket. Personally, I think she made the right decision, her family should come first. Her little ones are her first obligation and I admire her for keeping her first priority in her grasp.
The Heavenly Father is in control and it just maybe we Americans have not learn a lesson of how it is we are where we are. I can assure you it is NOT a lack of the image of professionalism.
On the ‘image’ thing.
Once upon a time it was the height of fashion for men to wear platform shoes, shoulder width collars and bell bottoms. Image comes and goes.
Once upon a time women had 3 foot beehive hairdoos and pillbox hats, wearing enough blue eyeshadow to make the sky envious.
Reality is what we make it. If we as a people say screw the BS that we have been fed regarding image etc, it holds no power. But enough people have to be willing to think for themselves. Perhaps someday enough people will have had their fill of having ‘reality’ dictated to them by someone other than themselves.