"The" reason..."A" reason, who cares? I wasn't trying to put words in your mouth if you listen to my point.
Plenty of people "care", regardless of their political stripes - newspeople, future candidates, campaign managers, political analysts wonks and junkies - even plenty of ordinary people with half a brain. People like you don't care because it's not the result you want, so you deliberately ignore reality. Understanding what happened in the past helps one plan and prepare for the future. Dismissing the truth is just plain foolish, fool.
The difference between saying "The" reason and "A" reason - among "many" - is hugely significant. If you don't understand this, you're a moron. If you're not "trying to put words in [my] mouth", then you are either too dumb to comprehend simple English, or you are dishonest, or both. I think both. I got your "point", and I've completely discredited it with evidence. For the third time:
. . . As I said,"She was a major factor in the McCain defeat", not the reason. Jeeshus Khryst, you even bolded that line in my quote, and you still got it wrong. You're correct that she initially energized the right-wing base of the party, but in the end to negligible effect. There were many reasons McCain lost, prominent among them was turning off voters in the center where the real battleground is, and women voters in particular. Palin was a major factor in both. In the end, voters questioned McCain's judgment in selecting Palin, another factor in the defeat of the ticket. . . Two days before Election Day, CNN released a national survey showing that Palin was a two-point drag on the GOP ticket overall. A New York Times survey reached a similar conclusion. “The end effect [of Palin running] was to make it impossible for McCain to win,” . . .
My point is that she was the OPPOSITE of a negative impact. She wasn't THE reason or even A reason for McCain's defeat. You are making a straw man. Why? Because you have nothing!
I have plenty, and I gave you plenty of independent objective data to back it up - a fraction of what's available, but way more than enough to support my position. If you read the articles, you would discover that at the end of the day, she pushed voters away at the center. She didn't even provide significant bounce in voter turnout from the right-wing base as expected, which is central to your 'point'. As usual, you choose to ignore reality in favor of seeing things the way you want them to be. At the same time, you never provide a shred of data or independent analysis to back up any of your own simplistic ignorant views, as is the case here and elsewhere throughout this forum. Why? Because you can't. You just talk out of your ass. And you say I have nothing. Do you know what irony is?
Women voters voted for Obama over McCain? No shit Sherlock. A majority of Women are liberal. Palin was the vice presidential nomination. Saying that anyone voted for Barack over Palin in 2008 is like saying someone would vote for McCain over Biden. The comparisons don't make any logical sense.
I didn't make that comparison. I explained why she was a major drag on the ticket on election day, incidentally to a greater degree than most VP candidates, arguably more than any in modern history, and I backed it up with solid evidence. Stop trying to deflect by debating points I never made. Now where's that Strawman exactly?
Also, please show us evidence for your statement that "a majority of Women are liberal". Let's define our terms first. Just because someone is ever so slightly left of you, say Lindsay Graham or Olympia Snowe for examples, does not qualify them as 'liberal', any more than Obama is a 'Communist', despite what you and your teabagging friends say.
All of your studies don't address the real reasons people were voting one way or another.
That's precisely what they do. That was kinda the whole point.
If you take all factors that led to the decision people made in 2008, you would see that your polls are nearly pointless.
They are a good barometer of public opinion and attitudes, depending on the sampling methods of course. A single poll is not necessarily something to hang your hat on, but when a preponderance of evidence all points to the same result, it's a strong indication there's something going on behind the numbers, and intelligent people tend to take notice.
For example, so exit polls showed people thought Palin didn't have the experience? Well that doesn't explain why anyone would vote for Obama then does it? Palin wasn't even running for president, and even Biden said that the presidency doesn't lend itself to on the job training. Are you calling the majority of voters stupid? Because based on what you are writing, you think they are.
I do think the majority of voters are 'stupid', in the sense they are uneducated, grossly ill-informed and/or misinformed. You could be the poster boy for that. A sizeable minority, like you, who think they are informed, are only 'informed' by opinions and propaganda that support their preconceived point of view. Meanwhile, you stubbornly ignore and reject anything that challenges that view. This is typical of that "authoritarian mindset" I keep telling you about. You really should look into it, but I know you won't. It's a Catch-22, ain't it? In the unlikely event you ever decide to expand your mind beyond your extremely limited world view, you can start here.
And you're even more stupid to think I wouldn't pick up on your non-sense.
Calling me stupid doesn't help your case ironically. Please continue to insult my intelligence if you like. I've certainly called yours into question. We'll let the readers decide.
What you and many others fail to see is that true intelligence does not lie in homework, but rather test scores.
Hmm . . . straight out of the old "No Child Left Behind" handbook, eh? Please explain how one learns anything of value or significance without study - without doing the requisite homework in other words.
In other words, anyone can scour the internet and regurgitate a bunch of polls that say one thing or another, but it takes true intelligence to figure out whats really going on.
In other words, what you think is going on, or what you want to be going on, ignoring all evidence to the contrary. I don't have to "scour the internet" to come up with factual information. I just type in a simple search query and thousands of results pop up instantly to support what I generally already knew. Perhaps you're frustrated, because you can't find anything to support your positions except Faux News and right-wing blogs?
Go back to school where the teachers will keep giving you A's for effort while you pump out those homework assignments.
I do have a decent formal education, and I periodically return to 'school' as I become interested in new fields of knowledge. I've always done well there, twice magna cum laude as a matter of fact, thanks to good native intelligence and being raised in a home where education was valued. More significantly, I have the natural curiousity to extend my study beyond the curricula and the assigned 'homework'. I've gotten almost exclusively "A's" for whatever that's worth, but I don't think I ever got one for "effort". More importantly, I go to 'school' in my everyday life and educate myself on all sorts of things, erudite to mundane - including honestly considering opposing points of view - in a neverending quest to learn new things and understand the world I live in. One thing I may never understand is the hostility and resentment some people display towards intelligence and education.
Leave the real problem solving to those that are smart enough to figure out what all this means.
You mean simplistic anti-intellectual authoritarian nimrods like yourself and Sister Sarah?
or Dubyah?? 
Once again, you just prove you don't have a fukin clue, and you're just talking out of your ass. I don't even know why I bother to respond.
BTW, two [edit: now three] days later we're still waiting for you to respond to this out-of-ass talking. You're a joke.
Of course we know what you'll do. Once you've been challenged to provide evidence to back up your position, once your 'points' have been discredited and you've been shown to be an idiot - yet again - you will evade, deflect and dissemble until you abandon this thread and pop in another one to spout the same ignorant nonsense. Good god, you're boring! and so predictable.
p.s. Have you ever noticed my signature quotes?
