Let's say Obama really wanted to make a splash to show how he was all about change and prove he wanted to end partisanship. To do so, he picked a little known Republican governor from Alaska. In response, McCain decided to follow a similar road and selected a Democratic Senator from Delaware.
Would your Presidential vote be altered?
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Of course it would be. Palin is the main reason I McCain won't get my vote. That, and the fact he's sold his soul to win this nomination.
Also, I'm still thinking writing in Ron Paul but it does feel like such a wasted vote. I think I might sit out the presidential or maybe I make a gut decision in the booth.
...had to fight the temptation to pick ass-hat...
Did he sell it to Obama?
Just an input from a non-American...
If that scenario were to play out, Obama's decision would have been a worse one than McCain's - if only because of the incompetence of that particular Alaskan governor to assume the VP position.
I'd switch.
You don't have "Become completely apathetical and not vote/vote third party" on there. Which, incidentally, is probably the same choices as a "What if Hillary Clinton got chosen as the Dem candidate?"
I didn't want to give an easy out
I'm assuming the governor from Alaska is not necessarily Palin, right?
I was actually hoping that Obama would consider a moderate Republican for his ticket. What better way to show post-partisanship than to pick someone from outside your party. His pick was very traditional - a party pick that shored up his perceived weaknesses.
I also though McCain was going to go outside the party and pick Liberman. I think if he had picked Lieberman he would have won the independent vote and would be polling better right now. I'll tell you what though, there was briefly some talk early in the process that McCain might consider John Kerry as a running mate. If that had happened, I may have voted for McCain over Obama.
I don't know that your hypo would have necessarily altered my vote, but I think it would have won McCain the election.
I should have clarified. I do specifically mean a McCain/Biden ticket versus a Obama/Palin ticket.
pitbull selectd as HUSSEIN's VP would be a huge error by HUSSEIN, but HUSSEIN would be still vastly superior, prefereble to McMakesUp .
But McBottomGun has shown repeatedly that he is ed up, no principles, and truly stupid to expect people to believe his insane (eg, ACORN is going to destroy America).
The guy is ing nuts, stumbling from one day to the next, even stumbling randomly from one sentence to the next. pitbull is now seen as huge fiasco, a critically fatal decision, dragging him down worse that his dubya connection. Biden as McSame's VP wouldn't upgrade McLiar in the least.
Oh and I do disagree with this. Palin was McCain's hail mary pass looking for a miracle. If he would have went with a standard pick, even a moderate Democrat, I still think he gets easily beaten by Obama. Obama was winning this with or without the Palin factor.
Even if Obama picked Palin as his VP? That would've lost him the election. No doubt about it.
That was my question, too, but since you're talking about a straight swap, I wouldn't vote for either.
McCain is far enough away from my beliefs that I couldn't support him as president regardless his VP, and picking Palin as a VP would be enough to scare me away from Obama. Not necessarily because I'd be concerned she'd suddenly be running the country, but because I'd have real difficulties supporting such an obvious stunt as picking a MILF running mate with beliefs/policies diametrically opposed to your own.
Eh, I don't know about that. I don't think Palin would have gone through the ringer 25 times per day if Obama were there to deflect. McCain being next to Palin just exacerbates her weaknesses.
Ha. Yeah. I may have voted for McCain in that scenario. I liked McCain before he started moving right and him selecting Biden would have convinced me that he is the same guy I thought he was. Also, I think McCain could select a Joe Biden and it wouldn't be entirely out of character for him. If Obama selected Palin, I would really have to wonder if he knew what the he was doing. In other words, I think McCain is closer to Biden politically than Obama is to Palin. Maybe the fact I could see McCain picking Biden, but not the other scenario, says a lot about McCain as a bipartisan politician. Or it says that Obama and Palin are the bookends of the spectrum in this race.
I think even if the media didn't got after her as much as they have, enough information (and interviews) would have come out to show how unqualified she is. Put that together with a novice Senator from Illinois, the fact that it would be transparent he picked her for superficial reasons, and he would've been blown out of the water.
Even if Obama did it with the stated purpose of "uniting all types of varying views under one umbrella on this ticket to prove we can work together no matter what we may disagree on" or something speechy like that?
I think if Obama put the selection in the perfect light, Palin could have hypothetically even helped his cause. Biden was more of a standard, safe pick that probably won't even have a .5% effect on election night.
McCain picking Biden would have demonstrated a sincerity to honor and serve the entire country. While I would have issues with his policy, a pick like this probably would have helped me believe he was capable of listening to advisers and making appropriate choices. It would have given me enough hope that a more Goldwater type McCain would govern.
For Obama to pick Palin, paired with his previous inexperience would have been a nail in the coffin I couldn't pry out.
Part of what has made this election easy for me is McCain's insane behavior and the Palin pick. I have some pretty serious concerns with Obama's policies, but I'm much more secure in the idea that he will select the best advisors the country as to offer and make decisions sanely, calmly, rationally, and with the best intentions.
I don't think her views would be beneficial to that cause, no matter what Obama said.
The McCain/Biden pairing is much more moderate in their views and I think real compromise could come out of it.
Yes, even then. There's just too big a difference in their policies for me to buy that.
First black candidate with a female VP chaser? There is a big reason BO couldn't even consider giving Hill the second chair.
McCain and Biden could have spent days feasting on babies and using the American Flag for toilet paper and they'd still have won.
Fair enough.
How about gun to your head by a man wearing a Super Mario Bros. t-shirt telling you that you had to vote one or the other? Then what.
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I'd have tried to vote for them twice if that was their ground game.
He wouldn't be allowed to accompany me into the voting booth.Fair enough.
How about gun to your head by a man wearing a Super Mario Bros. t-shirt telling you that you had to vote one or the other? Then what.
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