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

[howeird]

I agree, and I'll raise you one. Palin has showed that unlike Bush, she doesn't legislate her personal religious beliefs onto her constituents. Even though Alaska's citizens passed a same-sex marriage ban she vetoed a bill that sought to block the state from giving public employee benefits such as health insurance to same-sex couples. http://dwb.adn.com/news/government/legislature/story/8525563p-8419318c.html

Yes, she did it because her Atty General said the bill was unconstitutional, but Bush would have signed it anyway, and fought for it in court.

She also prosecuted GOP party leaders who were corrupt, instead of giving them medals like Bush has.

There's a lot to Palin which would attract the Hilary supporters, especially bearing in mind that other than the gender issue, those were the more conservative of the Democratic voters. Heck, I know a couple of Republicans who voted for Hilary in the primaries.

Yeah, she's got a vagina, but so does Ann Coulter (supposedly)

[cosmiquemuffin.livejournal.com]

As for the going after corruption, she's got her own ethics problems.

As for women's issues in general, we should probably sink a lot of money into getting the following ad into serious rotation:

[singingpatient.livejournal.com]

it's amazing that this year has been more about the vice prez than ever before. i hope no one forgets that palin or no palin, if you vote mccain, you're getting mccain. which means war with iran.

[capplor.livejournal.com]

When it all boils down, when the dust & mud settle, that will be the bottom line.

I will vote for unity & civility. Not more war & division.

[singingpatient.livejournal.com]

amen to that! no more poison!