Real voters on McCain’s pick
An interesting article from a Raleigh, NC TV station with instant reaction to the Palin announcement from a few North Carolina voters. Remember that NC is a new battleground thanks to Obama’s primary success and intensive ground effort there. These innocuous quips are important.
Looks like undecideds are surprised and have yet to form an opinion, Republicans are warily behind the move, and Hillary voters - who McCain expected to convert in droves with a woman on the ticket - aren’t about to back McCain.
Republican John McCain’s announcement Friday that first-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will be his vice presidential running mate has local voters talking.
GOP supporter Jerod Johnson, a teacher, hasn’t had a chance to form an opinion on Palin.
“I got to read up and figure out who she is and where she stands. McCain’s been out there, but I have no idea who she is,” Johnson said.Palin, 44, was the mayor of the 9,800-resident city of Wasilla and has been governor less than two years. She is the first Republican woman on a presidential ticket.
Undecided voter Brian O’Haver said the McCain/Palin ticket gives him something to think about.
“I don’t know much about her, so I can’t form an opinion yet, but I thought it was an interesting move,” O’Haver said.
Locals who supported Clinton are questioning McCain’s motives for naming Palin to the GOP ticket.
“I thought he was trying to pull a fast one, trying to get the women that were in Hillary’s camp,” former Clinton supporter Midge Silverman said. The decision to include Palin has not swayed Silverman to support the GOP ticket.
Judy Davis, another former Clinton supporter, said she was not supporting the GOP ticket because of Palin either.
“Not in the least. I don’t go for that kind of ploys,” Davis said.
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