Mon 1 Sep 2008
Palin Pick Engineers Double-Digit Swing, Obliterates Obama Bounce
Posted by J. Forrest Creecy under Campaign '08 , John McCain , Sarah PalinWell, the first polls are out since Senator McCain took my months old advice and selected Sarah Palin and the results are staggering. We all know that the Palin pick has changed the race and the numbers now support that assertion. According to the latest Zogby and CNN polls, Sarah Palin alone has wiped out Obama’s convention bounce and the race is once again a virtual tie. Whereas polls conducted during the Democratic Convention showed a 5-8 point Obama lead, the latest numbers indicate that Sarah Palin has engineered an almost double-digit swing. I think even the most fervent Republican pundits couldn’t dream of such a quick return on a VP pick so soon.
Zogby: McCain/Palin: 47% Obama/Biden 45%
The numbers demonstrate that Sarah Palin has indeed changed the entire narrative of the race and is possibly the gravest threat the Democrats have yet seen since Reagan. If one can take her opening speech as a sign of things to come the Dems have every reason to be VERY afraid. With things now tied again it remains to be seen if the Republican Convention, such as it is, will give McCain/Palin a nice 5-7 point bounce. Stay tuned…
In case you haven’t seen Governor Palin’s speech…be afraid Dems, be very afraid!
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:55 am
I think that the most historic aspect of the presidential and vice presidential nominating process of both parties is not related to the nomination of a black man or a woman; it has to do with the continuation of myth-busting by the Republicans.
Without a shadow of a doubt, the unprecedented orgy of wasteful and profligate spending by George W. Bush and his dear departed Republican Congressional Majority has exploded the myth of Republicans as fiscally responsible stewards of the American economy and of our common wealth. We, our children and their children, left to pay the tab from an administration who doubled the national debt in just 8 years, will forever curse in horror, pain, revulsion and betrayal every time the words “Republican” and “fiscal responsibility” are mentioned in the same sentence.
And now, further dramatic myth busting wrought by our Republican friends—that the GOP is the party that best represents the conservative moral views of our country. First they nominate McCain, an admitted serial womanizer who dumped his handicapped wife for a younger, more attractive (not to mention filthy rich) woman. And then they go and choose Palin as the VP nominee, a woman that preaches abstinence only “education” to the masses but whose sphere of influence as a leader on the issue does not even extend to the four walls of her own home.
So congratulations are clearly in order to the Republicans who have busted the myth that the GOP is the party of fiscal responsibility, and have gone on to shatter the myth that Republicans are leaders on moral issues as well. What’s next, dismantling the myth that Republicans are strong on defense? Perhaps in order to do that they would need to nominate as their presidential candidate a former cheerleader who dodged the draft by having his father get him into the National Guard from which he later went AWOL, and as a VP nominee a man who avoided the war through the judicious application of 5 separate deferments. Nah…that would be too much for even me to believe…