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Originally Posted by Keedy
Actually, McCain's numbers got a boost when he announced Sarah Palin as his running mate. Maybe he was trying to get the Clinton voters by having a woman on the ticket? It made it a tighter race but McCain was the wrong man for the job. Alot of people pinched their collective noses and voted for him because of the alternative.
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When Gov. Palin visited TV during the campaign, the event filled LSL to the breaking point, and TV had to broadcast the event over its community access channel to accommodate the response. She definitely brought life into what would have been a very dull Republican campaign, and helped get rid of the Republican ticket image as "fuddy-duddy."
Just finished watching the History Channel's "Presidents" series. It didn't show more than two or three past presidents as being "larger than life" persons - the rest were fairly ordinary people caught up in the times and having to respond as best they could. What was really evident from the series is that the USA has survvived
in spite of many presidents, and that the country is much greater than the presidential office-holder. That thought does give me hope for the future....
So, Gov. Palin - as one "of the people" - becoming a potential presidential candidate (and winning) is not a frightening thought.