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Originally Posted by MikeinAR
Precisely. I couldn't agree more. I really think that Palin represents today's base of the party better than McCain does. That's why her speech was received so well last night by base Repubs. Her job, in that sense, was easier than McCain's will be tonight.
McCain's task is to attract the moderate, undecided voters in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan and a handful of other battleground states. That's where the election is going to be won or lost. He knows that the base of the party won't be enough. He has to distance himself from George W. Bush enough to attract the undecided mods, yet stay close enough to GWB to keep his base fired up.
I'm sure his campaign and speech writers know the tight rope he'll be walking.
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100% agree with you here.
a couple of points to add. No one in modern presidential history has won the whitehouse without their base being fired up.
and no one in modern presidential history hsa won the whitehouse without appealing to the independant swing vote.
the winner is the guy who keeps the base fired up and wins the swing vote... in every election.
McCain is and always has been the guy on this ticket who appeals to the swing vote. His main problem was a base that was holding its nose.
Sarah Palin as removed the fingers from the bases nose, and got them to dig into their pocket book. the base now has a dog in this hunt, and McCain is getting them to give bigtime right now.
having said all that, I still say this race is the dems to lose. McCain can only keep it close and hope ZerObama makes mistakes.
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