OK, I see the poll now. I just don't see why he would switch. I think he stands to lose more if he switches than if he stands pat.
i'd be a little concerned about this trouper investigation going on right now as there are new emails and phone calls being uncovered. if there is any truth to this, you can kiss her main selling point of being a reformer and fighting corruption GOODBYE. better hope this investigation ends soon. and it's very strange mccain sent more of his people to find out more about her as we speak to alaska. i really wonder if he based this decision on a 15 minute vetting phone call?
I want to say no, but this election has been framed on decision making and which nominee can be the next Decider. Unfortunately, Mr. McCain hasn't had experience picking a VP candidate. Those early pledges about not going negative will sound more distant than it is already.
He can't switch candidates. But Palin possibly "withdraw" due to the horrible backlash thrust upon her family by the "liberal" media. Karl Rove hates McCain as much as McCain hates him and today has been the most bizarre day in political history. I have to give props to McCain for that.
Thanks for the poll. I'm on the fence. Now that it's come out that the religious right has dug in their trenches, it becomes a bit stickier. If Palin doesn't withdraw before giving her speech this week, she is definitely going to last until election day. From right now, there is a 2 day window for her to pull out.
Either way. If she pulls out then I think they lose more than if they stand pat. Why can't they switch? I seriously do not know.
I think that really depends on what else comes out and how the polls measure response to whatever we are learning/will learn about her. I'm pretty sure it's unprecedented in a presidential campaign to send vetters to the VP nominee's home state after he or she is selected. As that's what's going on now, I'd say all bets are off. Today was chock full of weird revelations. Tomorrow could be too. Or they could come a week before the election. Or not at all. Nobody knows. This is what happens when you panic and make a last minute pick without the benefit of a real vetting process.
If Palin drops out or is replaced..Obama wins the Election hands down. There is no way McCain would be able to recover from this. His judgment is already questioned. Palin dropping out would be the final nail in the coffin to Americans that he just isn't fit to make the right decisions. With that being said, McCain has to prove to the American public why Palin is the right choice, why he has good judgments(if any), why he is not George Bush, and what specifically is he going to do differently from the last 8 years. That's a tall order. I still say this is the Dems election to lose which, is quite possible since their track record at Presidential elections have not been great the last two times.
Note: At 9 votes for "yes" and 2 votes for "no," Batman Jones has yet to vote... Hoping for a majority of "no" maybe?
I didn't vote because I honestly don't have a guess. If I had to guess I'd guess it's 50/50 just because neither we nor the McCain campaign has enough information to make a reliable prediction. I was just curious as to what other people thought. I do think it's very remarkable though that anybody would predict that a major party candidate would replace his running mate. Again, this is what happens when you choose without vetting first. It was a horrible lapse on McCain's part to choose a potential president without even sending anyone to her home state to do research. I'm not saying there's something that has or will come out that will be catastrophic to her place on the ticket, but I am saying that we now know McCain didn't do the basic research needed to know whether it will or not. That is true malpractice. And it is a grievous error in judgment.
I'd say the easy way out would be to focus on who voted and not why it was even a legitimate poll question. Your boy really screwed up here. There's no getting around that.
Then came GWB who beat the incumbent Gore(who won the popular vote) and to Kerry(which should've won before the swiftboating came). Again, both times were the Dem's election to lose which, they did. I'm sorry, but when a party loses two elections in a row to GWB, it lowers the standards for this election. Look at the two parties candidates now - not the best from each party.
