Poll: Palin Choice Cost McCain Support From Former Clinton Backers

Comment LA Lady:

Say, what you want about incessant polling in our country, at least it settles some questions for us.  It now appears to show that former Clinton supporters who were thinking of voting for McCain actually decreased significantly after his pick of Governor Sarah Palin for his running mate.

Whatever else it shows during the Republican convention week when the red candidate's poll numbers are supposed to rise, a new CBS poll shows that Barack Obama's support from people who had supported Hillary Clinton actually rose from a week before, during the Democratic National Convention, after the Republican presidential nominee's chosen running mate announced to disappointed Clinton fans that they must mindlessly vote for her a virulently pro-life creationist (and big time braggart), in order to break the "glass ceiling" runing with a disingenuous pro war pro big busines fake maverick who will cement the imperial presidency over Americans, engage in knee jerk belligerence, and wars to reward big donors, and is likely to bring back the draft.

Yeah, right.  

From poll (as described by secondary source at The New Republic :

today's poll shows Obama making significant progress among Clinton supporters over the same period: He now leads this group 69-16, versus 58-22 last week and 60-23 the week before. 

The actual poll this references is at  THE RACE THIS WEEK September 1-3, 2008 which is a pdf and a bunch of convoluted stuff, as most polling data are.

But look at that TNR excerpt of the data!  Support for McCain went down from 22% to 16% in the week he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate.

Good going, Sir.

Besides the complete incongruency of substituting Sarah Palin for Hillary it might also have been McCain looking at Palin's boobs as she spoke at the announcement, and his declaring her his soul mate after meeting her twice.  (I know Palin has too much self esteem to get physically involved with him, but still it's John McCain's decision that's the point.)  (And look at that age spread, 28 years on the day that McCain announced the partnership.  That's worse than Bill and Monica's.)

 Oh yeah, Palin's beliefs conform to McCains idea that women should be burdened to every child conceived and other nonsence and apparently is okay to with his warmongering attitude.  So McCain's other simplistic ideas match with Ms. Palin's.  So, yeah, I guess you could say that she is his soul mate.  But then there should be a lot of older more experienced women in the Republican party that share those ideals.  And I'm sure that some of them look as good as Hillary does.

A little respect for the American people would have led the Republican presidential nominee to pick one of them.

Then again it would have also lad McCain away from posing as president at the beginning of  the Georgia-Russia crisis.  Even Sakaashvili called McCain out for that one.

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