Doesn't seem to be regretting Palin here.
Posted on 05/10/2018 9:33:59 PM PDT by conservative98
Doesn't seem to be regretting Palin here.
He wanted to take a dive.
An article from 2013 about a 2007 poll?
Huh?
He famously suspended his campaign to deal with the banking liquidity crisis.
That killed his campaign and GW’s record low popularity didn’t help.
As they say, the rest was history.
There were several times where he phoned it in and conservatives had to try to carry deadweight over the finish line.
Obama had a 6.0 percent lead in the Day to Day Politics Poll Average after the Democratic National Convention, but now is trailing after the Republican National Convention and the announcement of Sarah Palin as McCain’s running mate. This is the first time McCain has led Obama in the poll average since the two candidates emerged as their party’s presumptive nominees after the primaries.
After McCain chose Palin, the current Governor of Alaska, as his vice presidential candidate and the Republican National Convention, a Gallup poll had shown that the percentage of Republicans who are enthusiastic about voting has increased by 18%. The Democrats enthusiasm has only increased by 10% since the addition of Joe Biden to the nomination ticket and after the Democratic National Convention.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3654344/posts
He did everything possible to lose the 2008 election. Looking at things now....we can actually appreciate that Obama beat Hillary in the primary, and Obama beat McCain in the election. Of the three ‘evils’....Obama was the lesser.
I think in the end we dodged a giant bullet. Obama was a failure. McCain would have eroded the GOP from the inside.
Hey swamp, we're wise to you now!
What’s also telling in this is how the media used the slanted polls to “form opinion.” Notice that the shifts of 5 or more percent almost always went Obama’s way and, even though Obama won, they were nowhere near accurate. Trump wisely knew that polling was a corrupted practice by the time he ran and focused on creating and sustaining enthusiasm not poll-watching. McCain? Suspended his own campaign. Look like he didn’t even want to be there half the time. Created zero enthusiasm. Sarah tried to do the best she could with a campaign apparatus stabbing her in the back the entire way. It’s all more than crystal clear now.
Saturday 21 Sept 2008: CNN: Palin’s Florida debut draws thousands
It may have been a wise choice, if only for the optics - on the same day Barack Obama drew over 20,000 voters to an outdoor rally in North Carolina, Palin attracted tens of thousands of her own sun-baked supporters.
Though the audience was one of the Palin’s largest to date, the actual size of the crowd was unclear. According Mike Tucker, the fire chief of The Villages who was made available to the press by the McCain campaign, 60,000 people crammed into the streets to see Palin speak.
“There were people down the side streets, people down in the parking areas, people who couldn’t quite make it around to the main areas,” Tucker said, adding that many people were let into the rally without tickets, making the crowd count impossible to verify...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/21/palins-florida-debut-draws-thousands/
and then on Sunday 21 Sept, McCain threw his candidacy away:
22 Sept 2008: NYT So McCain Would Like Cuomo for the S.E.C.? New York Politicians Chew It Over
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
In the last year, Andrew M. Cuomo, New York’s hard-driving and ambitious attorney general, has been mentioned as a possible future candidate for governor, senator and New York City mayor.
So it was with a mix of pride, affection and deftly sublimated envy that New York’s political elite chewed over the news on Monday that Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, thought that Mr. Cuomo would also do a pretty good job as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission...
Mr. McCain’s suggestion of the S.E.C. post — made during a “60 Minutes” interview broadcast on Sunday — appeared to take everyone by surprise, including Mr. Cuomo. It came as Mr. McCain made several gestures toward bipartisan cooperation, including promises to include people from both parties in his cabinet...
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/nyregion/23cuomo.html
from then on, Sarah was pretty much shunned by MSM and McCain campaigned as if he was on the Obama team.
I agree. Let's hope it stays that way.
May the wool never be pulled over our eyes by hucksters like McCain, Nicholle Wallace and Charlie Black again.
The fix was in.
This is about polling activity ahead of the 2008 Presidential election - not 2007. And where does 2013 fit in? Most confusing. Sheesh.
to have to choose between the illegal IslamoNazi infiltrator bent on weakening America for our destruction..............and McShame............
what a horrible horrible choice.
It reveals a SERIOUS problem with our electoral system when the only ballot choices that have a genuine chance of winning are both POS’s or dangerous to America, or as in this case, both.
Sarah Palin almost messed up the plan for the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
That’s why the Uniparty hates her.
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