How do you feel about Obama's chances, now that McCain has selected Palin - better, worse, same?

[jefferson_dem]

How do you feel about Obama's chances, now that McCain has selected Palin - better, worse, same?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. Way better.

[jefferson_dem]

4. Same here.

No contest. As someone mentioned yesterday...up until this week, the election was a referendum on Obama. Now questions are being asked about McCain's aptitude and judgement. That's totally apart from the overall shittiness of Palin as a VP.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

6. I thought picking Romney would be a bad choice for McCain.

Given their combined house/financial wealth, etc., but at least Mittens has *some* experience -- governor of MA is better than governor of AK, plus his work in the private sector.

When McCain picked Palin, I refreshed the page, thinking I was reading The Onion.

[graywarrior]

2. Way waaaaaaaaaaaaay better.

McCain's "use" of this woman was all the fodder I needed to kick ass in Obama's campaign office for the next 8 weeks.

[dkf]

I think McCain is crazy.

His recklessness is breathtaking. If I were a Republican I would be STEAMED.

[enough]

3. Palin has nowhere to go but down. She will become more and more of a problem

as time goes on.

[Mike Nelson]

5. I'm actually afraid

she might withdraw...

I want her to linger!

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

15. I'm with you...

I've been posting that I think she'll withdraw by Tuesday. But what would be REALLY cool is if she withdrew NEXT Tuesday. After the convention, when McCain would have to just pick somebody without the benefit of the nominating process. A complete basket case of a campaign. That would be cool.

[Arrowhead2k1]

7. At first I was afraid,

but after realizing who Palin actually was, I don't think she has much of a chance. She WILL be destroyed. :D

[Abacus]

18. I was petrified

But in the past 24 hours, I've learned about troopergate, dairygate, cancer-bitchgate, planegate, a handful of years as mayor of a town of 8500 and a year and a half governership, professed ignorance of the job description of the job she's applying for, and an Assembly of God association.

Edit: altered title to stick with lyrics.

[mnhtnbb]

8. Better--until she drops out and McCain comes to his senses and selects

a more qualified running mate.

[terrya]

14. I think the damage has already been done.

As it has been said here before, the first kind of executive choice McCain would make is the selection of a running mate. And well, here it is. This directly speaks to McCain's judgement.

[Life Long Dem]

9. Plenty better, as long as we stick together

[discopants]

10. Obama will do better, but the smears will get uglier

as soon as McCain goes nuclear with the attacks that Obama & Biden are sexist, they'll really try to ratchet up the women vote that way... and of course abortion attack will get cranked up to a whole new level once they bring Palin's children into it, specially the youngest child. Ugh, expect to see it all by next weekend.

[AtomicKitten]

11. After laughing for about a half-hour, I concluded it was a gift to Barack, Joe, and us.

[Alexander]

12. Much, much better.

It's like McCain and Obama are playing chess, and McCain just gave us the queen.

[terrya]

13. Much better.

[flamingdem]

16. So... who voted for "worse"... no one is admitting to it!

They must be freepers..

[gemlake]

19. The "concern" trolls

She's the least qualified VP pick in modern history.

[peaches2003]

17. Never overestimate the intelligence of the American voter

The Repugs are masters at making voters vote on wedge issues such as abortion, gay marriage and guns rather than the things that really affect their lives. If Bush was reelected in 2004 I have no faith in the American voter not to be manipulated by a pretty smile, a tearjerker of a story about her Downs Syndrome baby, the right to hunt, and the threat of gays. Don't kid yourself, it can happen.

[Frank Booth]

20. With the lack of an independent media in this country, it would have been

difficult no matter who McCain picked.

[DirtyBirdNorth]

21. McCain seemed to be gaining with the "Inexperience"

argument against Obama and then decides to throw that argument out the window with the selection of Sarah Palin as his VP choice.

The Obama Team is too much of a well oiled machine to be "giving away" any argument.

This pick by McCain is election suicide.

[ObamaKerryDem]

22. Even better...

This just makes me all the more motivated to help Obama get elected! :D And I refuse to believe my own country would be that fucking stupid..again....I want there to be SOME hope left for it..and the world..

[Awsi Dooger]

23. Same because the VP pick doesn't mean much

But I wish McCain had picked an irrelevant guy.

Sarah Palin is going to become very popular during the campaign. I watched every Alaska debate on CSPAN in 2006. She has a very effective relaxed style with plenty of smiles and charm. That translated to wildly surpassing her primary polling numbers, and also easily eclipsing her late poll numbers in the general election vs. Tony Knowles. Then she had roughly a 90% approval rating at one point this year.

You've got to be dense to ignore all that evidence of winning support. There was a reason McCain picked her and it wasn't masochism. It's a cynical choice designed to challenge fence sitting women not to vote for a ticket featuring a woman.

[livetohike]

24. I definitely feel better. Once the RNC convention is over and everyone

gets on the campaign trail, it will be evident how nervous Palin is on the big stage. I don't know how much scrutiny she receives in Alaska. It appears she is still in the honeymoon phase of the governorship.

[Motown_Johnny]

25. Better, I thought Mitt might put MI in play.. I don't see any direct EC advantage from Palin

[FrenchieCat]

26. The way that I feel about this election is more based on our convention

and Barack's speech than on anything that McCain has done. period.

[Cha]

27. Obama is going to win no matter who mccain

chose from his bevy of sick sidekicks to be..but this is the worst he could have done.

[NorthCarolina]

28. I'm skeptical, this choice seems so unlikely and illogical that

some sort of dirty work, or smoke and mirrors tricks has to be afoot.

[Undercurrent]

29. I'm worried, but then again,

as my 88 year old dad reminded me this morning, I worry about everything.