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To: Bill who wrote (25073)	11/6/2008 2:02:49 PM
From: pompsander	1 Recommendation Respond to of 25737

Historically Vice-President selections have had very little, if any, impact on voter decisions. LBJ in 1960 being a noted exception, allowing Kennedy to carry Texas. If memory serves the same question as regards Cheney or Edwards four years ago got a miniscule responose. The fact that it is a question at all, positive or negative, just shows that Palin remained a polarizing influence. McCain could never win the election with out drawing on the independents and the middle ground folks. She did nothing to help with those. Maybe the base would have stayed home without her on the ticket. I think they would have reluctantly voted for McCain anyway. Who can say? He lost...exactly why will be subject to plenty of analysis. I don't think Palin helped him where he had to have help...in the undecideds in the middle. By the way, what was the polling about Biden's influence on people voting for Obama? I presume they asked the same question of the exit voters? Or did anybody care that he was the VP nominee?