You are being fooled by a shiny, sparkling distraction. My advice: Ignore the pundits and spinmeisters every time they tell you that the McCain campaign chose Gov. Sarah Palin in an effort to deprive Barack Obama of Hillary Clinton voters. Republican leaning pundits use this line because they want to exaggerate Palin’s appeal. Democratic-leaning pundits use this line as a way of mocking McCain for being out of touch with the real concerns of Clinton voters. Non-ideological pundits use this line because they are not reading the polls. It’s too early to tell what impact Palin could have among women voters, but it’s not hard to tell what group of women the McCain campaign hopes to lure. And they are not Hillary Clinton voters. “Hillary got about 10 million women’s votes. There are going to be about 62 million women voters in November,” explains Peter Brown, a pollster at Quinnipiac University. “The Palin stuff is not aimed at the Hillary 10, it’s at the other 52.”
From a longer piece by Michael Scherer at TIME.com: Swampland.
NewMexiKen’s advice: Ignore the pundit and spinmeisters all the time.
Here’s my issue. As a woman I’m going to vote for a candidate simply because she’s a woman? Because that’s what these pundits are saying.
Isn’t there a slight tinge of something wrong about that notion?
I’m going to vote for the candidate who shows me the best combination of position on the issues and earning my confidence they can handle the job (to be honest, there is not yet a frontrunner for my vote….)