I'm about to stick my neck out...

[figmo]

...and make a prediction re: the Presidential election.

I have been saying for months that if McCain were to select a female VP candidate, he'd win the election.

I stand by that statement.

This has nothing to do with anyone's political preferences, including mine. I am making this prediction as a journalist.

My logic: Barack Obama's VP, Joe Biden, is male, thus alienating the folks who voted for Hillary Clinton because they wanted a woman President. Many of Hillary Clinton's supporters felt alienated by Obama's choice.

Many of these Hillary Clinton supporters are so desperate to see the "glass ceiling" shattered they'd vote for anything female on a ticket, no matter what her viewpoints were. Now that they have their female on a ticket, many of these former Clinton supporters will vote for the Republican slate, mostly to have a woman only "a heartbeat away" from the oldest Presidential candidate ever, exclusively because of her gender even though Sarah Palin's viewpoints are very different from Hillary Clinton's.

Comments

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

You're not the only one to predict this on my f-list; another friend (who has dual Canadian-American citizenship) also stated he suspected this would happen back in June.

Surely you Yanks can do better than four more years of inanity, no?!

[Note to foregoing: "McCain's" is a popular frozen french fry in Canada and parts of the US.]

[howeird]

Surely you Yanks can do better than four more years of inanity, no?!
I see you don't remember 2004

[keristor.livejournal.com]

In the UK as well, "McCain's Oven Chips" (what y'all call 'fries' we call 'chips'; what y'all call 'chips' we call 'crisps'; two nations separated by a common language). They are cooked in the oven (broiler?) instead of being fried.

[phillip2637.livejournal.com]

That provides a point of difference. The ones you describe are more than half-baked.

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

As opposed to some of the commentary I've seen on my political mailing list about the selection.