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Why Sarah Palin increases Mc Cain posibility of winning?

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Henglee asked:


Thousands of Hillary Clinton supporters are backing Sarah Palin now.Most of this are white woman.Remember that whites are still the majority in USA.

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23 Responses to “Why Sarah Palin increases Mc Cain posibility of winning?”

  1. BECAUSE SHE DID NOT!!!!

  2. Issues not speeches or race will decide this election.

  3. She may have increased his chances or hurt him

    But I’d prefer McCain had picked someone else, he picked her cause she’s a woman. Just shows how he cares more about winning the election than leading his country in the right direction. Picking someone else would’ve been a whole lot better.

  4. Definitely, USA want to see a women in the White House al least like Vice President… Obama had to choose Hillary to be more strong in this battle but he prefer an old men with experience (not bad) but this is the country for big changes and Mc.Cain did something very intelligent.

  5. sarah palin is a joke, using her messed up family, she didn’t even talk about the economy just a bunch of bs

  6. Have you checked the Gallup poll lately? Hillary supporters are supporting Obama.

    The women who are supporting Palin are the right wing fuddie nut jobs like Palin

    Clinton has intelligence, Palin is a right wing cheerleader with no experience.

  7. On the contrary, it decreases.

  8. Not even CLOSE.

    Last I checked, a MAJORITY of Clinton supporters are NOT voting for the McCain-Pain ticket and today–I read in the PAPER that a MAJORITY of women voters are backing Obama and not voting the McCain-Palin ticket.

    Care to respond?

  9. Palin is a joke, a liar, and stretches the truth….. your statement about hillary voters supporting Palin, just shows your ignorance as they stand for opposite issues completely.

    PALIN: “I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending … and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress ‘thanks but no thanks’ for that Bridge to Nowhere.”

    THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a “bridge to nowhere.”

    PALIN: “There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate.”

    THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.

    PALIN: “The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars.”

    THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama’s plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain’s plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.

    Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.

    He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.

    MCCAIN: “She’s been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America’s energy supply … She’s responsible for 20 percent of the nation’s energy supply. I’m entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America,” he said in an interview with ABC News’ Charles Gibson.

    THE FACTS: McCain’s phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she’s no more “responsible” for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.

    MCCAIN: “She’s the commander of the Alaska National Guard. … She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,” he said on ABC.

    THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under “federal status,” which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska’s national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.

    FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin “got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States.”

    THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor’s election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still g

  10. I think you are mistaken, but time will tell. Let’s all keep an open mind here. In my observation, the Hillary supporters I am aware of, including me, have not gone over to McCain but are backing Obama.

  11. Hillary supporters for the most part will back Obama, not of big swing there. Hillary did however, bring many new women to vote that relate to her. Sarah Palin can do the same for conservative women, because middle class women with family struggles can relate.

    If Palin takes just a few extra Hillary supporters, other than those who already jumped ship, it will make a difference. Some swing states will be decided by a very close margin. Remember Florida 2000? Alber gore (Algore) was very close and missed it by a few votes not matter how many times he counted.

  12. Absolutely Sarah Palin helps McCain’s odds!! Your question seems to imply that Hillary supporters were only supporting her because she was a woman and that’s the only thing Palin brings to the table, the fact that she’s a female. While I have heard of women who supported Hillary for that reason alone, I have to say that I do not personally know a single one! And I’m the product of a women’s college!

    The Hillary supporters who will gravitate to Sarah are those blue collared union members, the ones who never liked or trusted Obama in the first place, and weren’t excited about McCain either. Sarah Palin has shown Americans a very effective “every-woman” face, and like it or not, agree with it or not, Americans vote for a person who they feel understands their everyday life. (George Bush won….twice) Likability, authenticity, and approachability does touch voters! It’s hard for our analytical media to understand that, but history shows us its true.

    Sarah Palin helps McCain because of how she connects to “average” Americans, not simply because she’s a woman. And all the jabs about her mothering skills, experience, and prejudiced jokes about her small town/small state/redneck family only strengthen her ability to touch those voters.

  13. Dream on….

  14. oh really, where is your link supporting this statement?
    so you’re saying white women are supporting Palin simply because she is a white woman, never mind her views on the issues?

    dos integrity have any merit?

  15. VirtueOfIntolerance on October 12th, 2008 at 4:55 pm

    Sure She has increased McCain’s chances. I know of several people including myself who were undecided before McCain picked a running mate, but now with her the choice is clear… If he would have picked some liberal or just another weak conservative, I would have a problem, but my vote will go for a strong conservative any day as opposed to a socialist islamofascist.
    and by the way, I don’t believe McCain picked her primarily to gain the women’s vote, if anything, he picked her to gain the “evangelical christian” vote.

  16. tylermiracled00d on October 16th, 2008 at 12:32 am

    i personally think that it was a mistake to choose her.
    And NO, the majority of Hillary’s supporters are for Obama, as am I.

    Though i do think McCain chose her for the sake of hoping that Hillary’s supporters would turn to her, i think it was a poor decision.
    Her 17 year old daughter is Pregnant! That isn’t a big deal in itself, but the fact that this has happened and she is AGAINST *** education is rather silly. Maybe, she thinks it is the parents duty to inform kids about this? But obviouslllllllllyyyy many are NOT.

    ah whatever though..

    i

  17. Oh because he threw in a white women in his campaign (who may i remind you has basically no experience who is corrupted , 17 year old pregnant daughter ) all the white women are gonna leave democrats and vote for McCain (lying traitor ) and register as a republican .

    Bull Crap !

  18. Anybody who dogs on Palin is a whiney ***** ( aka most of you fuc*k*ers) She is awesome. She gave us Alaskans an extra $1200 because we actaully have to pay for heating oil or we die in the winter. And our gas DIDNT DROP IN PRICE UNLIKE THE REST OF THE F’ING COUNTRY. *** obama

  19. I am a white woman who was a Hillary Supporter! I will NOT vote for Mccain, his chose of VP is a embarrasment to this country. Palin needs to be a MOTHER and take care of her family. She was too old to have a baby in the first place, there are risk for women at that age having children. She and her unwed 17 year old daughter should have BOTH been on birth control. I find these facts disturbing and irresponisble. Lets face it if something happens to Mccain in office this woman will take over, she cant even control her own life mustless the US. How many other presidents daughters are pregnant at 17, NONE!!

    I will be voting for Obama…sorry!! Hillary supporter!!

  20. shes just won him the election, shes got a fire to her and she def. acts like she dont take crap from no one plus shes a milf. She has strong values and appeals to middle america which is where the election will be won or lost. She will get McCain the election and 2012 you will see the first female president.

  21. What does race have to do with anything? I’m a Republican, but if there’s one thing I agree with Obama on, it is that it is time to move beyond the focus on race.

    I want McCain to win and Obama to lose not because of the color of their skin, but because of the differences in their political philosophies and experience.

    I think this campaign is proving once and for all that this country HAS moved beyond race. Obama is being treated exactly the same as a white Democrat would be.

    So yes, Sarah Palin will help increase McCain’s chances of winning. Not because she’s white, and not because she’s a woman but because (like McCain) she has a strong record of reform (or “change”), and that is what the country is craving right now.

  22. ROFL!!!! lolololololololol. Dream on!

    Gloria Steinem, a white woman, says, “The only thing that Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have in common is a pair of chromosomes.” As far as I can tell, Hillary Clinton supporters think Sarah Palin is a joke as VP and an absolute hellish nightmare as a possible President.

    The only Hillary supporters who are going to vote for Sarah Palin are the ones whose ballots are stolen and stuffed by Rep. cronies.

  23. Sarah Palin will increase the votes for people are not in loved with Obama and need a reason to vote for McCain. I am a black female. I almost want Obama to win, so that Americans suffer the devastation that he would been to this country. We will self explode by our stupidity. Barrack is not going to produce one job, save one house from foreclosure or send one of your government school educated children to college. He is brilliant and I can’t wait til he finish you off.

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