Originally Posted by Mutt

wouldn't have made the difference for him - but i think when the election gets analyzed more they'll say she was a negative - Palin is 'preaching to the choir', she definitely appealed to the core of the Republican party but those people were going to vote McCain anyway. They hoped she would help the ticket grab a significant number of estranged and disappointed Hillary Clinton female supporters - and it looks like that backfired - Clinton's pantsuit brigade are college educated liberal women - Palin may look like them but her views on practically everything including a woman's right to choice on abortion repulsed them and instead of sitting out this election she provoked those ladies into action for Obama.