Mathew Dowd: Palin Poll Bounce Won’t Last

24 years ago it was a whole different ballgame. The treatment of Hillary upset a lot of women & I do believe they will vote for McCain. There are some of us out here that most of the policies won’t affect us one way or another. If you have health care & make a decent living that never matters what the economy is doing. Along with no children that the education policy is mute. What are you going to do?

Former Mayor Koch, endorses Obama.

NY Daily Post, endorses McCain/Palin

It is really important that everyone, especially the youth of America steps up to the plate and vote the Obama/Bieden ticket. The U.S. future depends on a change in Washington and Obama is this country’s best chance at some kind of recovery from the irresposible Bush years!

Ditto

Minday said at 12:07PM “You PUMA’s wanted Hillary? So you can’t get past you personal irritation about Obama and would rather set your lives back to the first half of the 20th century by voting for McCain/Palin? How politically short-sighted can you be?”
These PUMA’s are backstabbing Hillary in the way that voting for the dinosaur & his princess will likely dash Clinton’s dream of becoming 1st woman POTUS…it may very well go to a Republican woman that doesn’t share Hillary’s platform AT ALL. Not only that by McCain would likely be a one term only president, and a young, popular VP would likely run (successfully) for POTUS in 4 years. Clinton would be old news by then. A real Hillary backer would want McCain/Palin to fail.

As Americans remember that jobs and houses are evaporating the bounce will fall flat. As Americans remember that bin Laden is still free, that our troops are still bogged down in an unnecessary war, that health care costs continue to rise, as energy costs soar, that McCain is George Bush II, that Sarah Palin is a religious fanatic, that America has lost her allies and status in the world.. the bounce will fall flat.
So enjoy the bounce, it won’t last.

As a woman who was a little annoyed with treatment of Hillary, I must say that to those hurt Hillary women that are voting for McCain because he chose a woman is ridiculous. I do understand that she was treated unfairly, but how can you vote for someone who blantly says this is not about the issues. If it is not about the issues, then what is it about? The issue for me is that my brother is leaving to go to Iraq and I may never see him again because this war was based on a lie. The issue is that my neighbor has lost not one, but two sons because of this lie and husband will be deployed along with my brother. The issue is that my church memeber has lost her son because of a lie. How can you stand for a woman that say’s this war was God’s will? The issue is for me that my brother is married with 4 kids and his wife could possibly end up raising those kids alone. The issue for me is that having to meet a mortage, take care of kids, take care of ailing mother, look after ailing father who still works at 75, because SS is not enough, on top of that pay not only for my college, but a child as well. Those are my issues. Those are the things that I care about.

Obama’s lipstick rebuttal occurred as he was presenting his views on education. What are his views?
You folks should send your kids to union dominated schools – no choice. Meanwhile, my daughters will continue to go to a private school for the elite!
Nice message Barack. Nice indeed!

The latest polls are showing Obama has almost regained all his edge back. Sarah’s shrill voice and ignorance will continue to eat away at the Republicans until they dump her – soon I predict.

I think Palin will have a real balancing act she’ll need to pull off
when we get to know her. She didn’t support just creationism in the schools and isn’t against contraceptive information in the schools- she feels both creationsism/evolution absitinence/contraception should be taught but leaves it up to the parents/people. She did not bow to pressure by the pro-life groups to add a parental notification piece on an energy bill they pressured her on. The first veto she did as Governor was one that ensured that gay/lesbians kept their domestic partner rights. In statements she’s made she clearly is conservative on social issues personally but is clear her job is not to push her views on the people of Alaska. The Obama camp is engaging in a smear campaign to portray her as a right wing whacko and I think if the public ever get’s the opportunity to hear and read some of her statements as Governor or to see her beiing interviewed they’ll see how this story is being spun. The problem is that she risks alienating her christian right base though also.

Obama had a complete meltdown when he was interviewed by O’Riley. Couldn’t answer any tough question – tried to talk around them and change the subject.
When under pressure, BHO crumbles like a cookie!

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Obama: What is mine is mine. What is yours is mine.
Socialistic? Of course it is!

Diasy, I believe 2016 means after BO serves the next 8.

Here is a chief Republican strategist saying the bounce won’t last.

Only been a week since the RNC, and they have already peaked. Their big convention bounce pulled them even in some polls. Smell the fear?

rockthebleachers, did you actually read my post, or were you too busy assuming I had taken another identity? My comments were about a successful PUMA movement to elect McCain out of spite. If McCain wins, it is beyond doubtful that he will run for a second term (assuming he lasts through the first). Why would you think Hillary would wait until 2016? A more likely scenario would be a Palin vs. Clinton match in 2012. By then, as I stated before, Hillary will be old news.

“We don’t need Bush II”
“We don’t need a belicose manner”
Correct, we need an end to partisanship and a shift from the ultra-left and ultra-right to the center of the political spectrum led by someone who actually, by their voting record, has demonstrated fully the ability to work with both sides of the political isle.
“We don’t need Bush votes 90% of the time”
We also don’t need someone who has voted with their party 100% of the time, that is, when they actually voted other then just, ‘present’.
“We don’t need war with Russia”
No, we don’t. We do need someone with wisdom and resolve to stand up to a resurgent Russia who by threat or direct force is actively attempting to diminish those former soviet satellite states who have chosen liberty for themselves. We need someone strong enough and experienced enough to stand up to a Russia who is holding a saber to Europe’s jugular, which is oil.
“We don’t need a VP with ethics issues”
Ethics issue? This issue is over an officer who tazered his stepson, some say jestingly, but against his clear and unequivocal training not to do so and also knowing full well the potential danger as well as threatening physical harm to his former spouse and her parents. Additionally, as troopers in Alaska also have game warden duties, he illegally hunted game. He should have been fired. The person who defended this officer and refused to fire him was rightly terminated.

I was waiting for this interview, so I can decide. Listening to her answers to the questions helped me to decide. It was a very easy decision afterall. She did not appear credible at all. She really seems to be more of the same.
Some people will probably vote for her out of pity which is sad. We are talking about future of a nation.