campaignspot.nationalreview.com - 11/5/2008
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Campaign Spot reader Joshua writes in, with some data on what Sarah Palin did and did not add to the Republican ticket.
First the most significant fin... . . .
rasmussenreports.com - 11/7/2008
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rasmussenreports.com —
Sixty-nine percent (69%) of Republican voters say Alaska
Governor Sarah Palin helped John McCain’s bid for the...
presidency, even as news reports surface that some McCain staffers think she was a liability. Only 20% of GOP voters say Palin hurt the ...
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69% of GOP Voters Say Palin Helped McCain
blogs.abcnews.com - 11/7/2008
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blogs.abcnews.com —
ABC’s Kate Snow reports: A longtime aide to
Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin is lashing back at anonymous...
critics within the McCain-Palin presidential campaign, telling ABC News they are attacking the former vice presidential candidate with distortions. ...
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Palin Aide Offers Strong Rebuke to Criticisms
abcnews.go.com - 11/7/2008
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abcnews.go.com —
Now that the defeated Republican presidential team of
Sen. John McCain and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have...
gone their separate ways, the knives are out and Palin is the one who is getting filleted. But longtime Palin staffer Meg Stapleton is lashing ...
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Palin Aide Fires Back at Reported McCain Camp Slams
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The Day After
Vodkapundit —
... president, and the real shame is that both of them couldn’t lose. It’s telling that the legacy media is still rushing to condemn the one big thing McCain did right as a candidate, which was naming Sarah Palin as his running mate. Despite the onslaught of fanatical anti-Palin invective that’s swept the airwaves and internet over the past two months, Palin shored up a conservative base that had little interest in voting for McCain beyond, “Well, he’d be better than the other guy.” Looking at the numbers today , it’s clear that Palin’s presence on the ticket played a major part ...
Some initial jottings on "what next?"
Stubborn Facts —
I join Pat's last two posts in full, as I do Peter Kirsanow's post here, Scott Johnson's post here, Yuval Levin's posts here and here, and Jim Geraghty's posts here and here. I should also note Chris Beam's post here,and reitereate what we said after the last election (a memo we mentioned here): everyone in the House Republican leadership must go at the end of this Congress. A line must be drawn under the Bush-DeLay-Frist era; the voters are going to keep on punishing us until we grasp that much.
Dan McLaughlin ...
Persons of the Year
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... That is a misleading statement. What the exit polls actually showed was that 60% of voters said that Sarah Palin was a factor in their decision of which presidential candidate to mark their ballots for. Of that 60%, people were more likely to vote McCain by a significant margin. ...
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