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.

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[howeird]

I saw it as doing both.

[singingpatient.livejournal.com]

obama had a tall order of giving an inspiring speech while answering all the attack ads launched against him, laying out details of how he would accomplish each thing he wants to do, healing the rift with the hillary supporters, and telling people who he was and what he stood for.
i think he accomplished a remarkable number of things in one speech, without losing the crowd at any point.
if you listen to his speech from 4 years ago and his speech from this past week, he never contradicts himself.
we have a bunch of presidential debates coming up at which point we will know what his exact position is on anything that hasn't already been made clear. if he ducks the question at that point, then we'll know he really is ducking the question.