Ethics

Study: Palin Key to McCain Loss

By Ed Brayton

A new study of polling data from last year's election shows that it was not the financial crisis last fall that boosted Obama over McCain, it was the selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate that destroyed any chance the GOP had of winning the election. The data reveals that the financial crisis that famously prompted McCain to "suspend" his campaign did very little to change voters' minds, but once he named Palin and she began to be known to the voting public, it was all downhill from there.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 21, 2009 (boomark / email).