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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (134255)	9/4/2008 12:40:47 AM
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hot off the press article. GOP Hopes Palin Resonates with Three Key Groups By Bob Benenson and Tim Starks, CQ Staff The benefits that Republicans hope to gain by pairing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as running mate on John McCain ’s presidential bid — and the risks that they could be wrong — have been clearly outlined in the tumultuous days since the little-known governor was announced as McCain’s pick. There are three major constituencies that McCain and fellow Republicans most hope to reach with Palin in the number-two slot: • Social conservatives, many of whom have long been skeptical of McCain’s affinity to their agenda, to whom Palin’s opposition to abortion and evangelical Christian beliefs are aimed to appeal. The Republicans who have charged liberal bias against news media outlets investigating Palin’s background are hitting a note already popular among voters in this group and other GOP stalwarts. This is happening • Women voters — including, Republicans hope, some Democrats disaffected by party nominee Barack Obama ’s thwarting of Hillary Rodham Clinton ’s bid to become the first woman president BWAHAHAHAHHA REALITY CHECK! THEY CAN'T BE SERIOUS THE HILLARY VOTERS ARE INSULTED BY PALIN • Voters who believe the nation is on the wrong track and who blame government officials for many of its problems, to whom the GOP hopes to appeal by presenting Palin as a reformer who has sought to clean up a corrupt state political establishment. Again really unlikely since Bush is the one who made the mess It appears the Palin pick has been an immediate hit with only one of these groups, social conservatives. This is hardly negligible, as Palin can help solidify the party’s base and generate the enthusiasm that will fuel the voter-turnout efforts McCain needs. But she almost certainly needs to improve her standing with other groups if she is ultimately to be a net-plus to the ticket. (so in other words shes a NET NEGATIVE, that must be why Obama is over 50%) Republican Party activists had a ready answer to the question “Who’s she?” after McCain revealed Palin as his pick. The biographical tapestry they weaved presented Palin as a combination of role model for 21st century working mothers, bold public servant, old-fashioned frontiers woman who hunts and has worked on commercial fishing boats, and paragon of conservative social values. The volume and ferocity of the advocacy for Palin intensified after the inevitable delving into the background of the surprise pick quickly turned up information that threatened to fray Palin’s image, including the revelation that Bristol Palin, her unmarried 17-year-old daughter, is five months pregnant. In addition, the Alaska legislature has a pending investigation into allegations that Palin may have pressured officials to fire her former brother-in-law from a state job and questions have been raised about whether Palin’s husband Todd and maybe the governor herself are sympathetic to the Alaska Independence Party, which includes the possibility of the secession of Alaska in its platform. Questions about Palin’s political views and family circumstances were quickly condemned by Republican leaders and some other critics as “sexist” and “misogynistic.” McCain campaign manager Rick Davis on Wednesday told reporters gathered for the convention that Palin as the target of a “faux media scandal designed to destroy the first female Republican nominee” for vice president. A few hours later, a group of prominent Republican women held a news conference in St. Paul to scold reporters, who have raised questions about Palin’s experience, family life and political allegiances. “Shame on them, shame on all of them,” said Rosario Marin, who was the U.S. treasurer earlier in the presidency of George W. Bush . They echoed a charge made by former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, a rival to McCain for the presidential nomination earlier this year, in a fiery partisan address to the convention Tuesday night. “Let’s be clear,” Thompson said, “the selection of Gov. Palin has the other side and their friends in the media in a state of panic.” But panic among Democrats and within the Obama campaign is only likely to really take hold if Palin begins to show wide-ranging appeal beyond a socially conservative constituency that has for many years strongly favored Republican presidential tickets.