Sarah Palin
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, […]
Must-read on the Palin selection
Ron Fournier of AP has an excellent piece on how McCain’s pick - a “risky choice” - of the uber-inexperienced Palin renders his campaign’s consistent charges of drastic inexperience on Obama’s part useless. Useless!
John McCain’s risky choice of Gov. Sarah Palin gives him a running mate who doubles down on his maverick image, may […]
GOPers nervous about Palin
Ambinder has some fresh reaction to McCain’s running mate choice from a few very concerned Republican strategists and insiders. These are no doubt very wise folks, because they express the doubts that make Palin a colossal gamble and a likely mistake that will haunt McCain for the rest of the campaign.
A few are cautiously optimistic […]
Reaction to Palin
One thing that the announcement of Sarah Palin as McCain’s running mate didn’t lack was overall chatter about the selection - from all sides.
The Obama campaign initially came out with a harsh jab at McCain’s decision that focused on Palin’s extreme lack of experience and the old “heartbeat away” line.
Bill Burton said the following immediately […]
It’s Palin?!
John McCain suddenly turned into the unpredictable maverick again - if just for a day - with his shocking and highly questionable pick of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, announced to a packed house (!!) in Dayton earlier today. The McCain campaign managed to keep the press guessing and the exact name […]
