Palin Pick The Real Reason McCain Trails in Polls? Turning point not financial crisis but VP pick

[DeepModem Mom]

Editor&Publisher: Palin Pick The Real Reason McCain Trails in Polls?
By Greg Mitchell
Published: October 22, 2008

NEW YORK It may yet turn out differently, but at this stage in the campaign for the White House it appears that if John McCain loses in November the turning point will not be the financial crisis hitting in late September but his choice of Sarah Palin as his veep in late August.

Two new national polls show that voters cite that choice as the main reason they have turned from McCain. Indeed, his slippage in the poll began in September after his convention bounce, and before the financial crisis truly hit, as media vetting on Palin began and she ventured out for her first TV interview. But here is another measure: the brutal criticism of that pick in newspaper editorial endorsements of his opponent -- from GOP-leaning papers that endorsed George W. Bush.

Many of them cited his Palin pick as a key reason for switching sides this time around. As the Chicago Tribune, which backed a Democrat for president for the first time in its history, frankly declared, “McCain failed in his most important executive decision."

Yet McCain said today, referring to Palin, "I think she is the most qualified of any that has run recently for vice president.”

Here is a gallery of some of these comments, all from Bush-backing papers in 2004....

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003876408

[TheCoxwain]

1. Whatever ....

[BOSSHOG]

2. More qualified then Al Gore? johnny what have you been smoking?

You are stuck with her now buddy!

[John Q. Citizen]

3. I agree. Palin showed that McCain was corrupt and owned.

[renate]

4. reading those comments is pretty darned gratifying n/t

[WI_DEM]

5. It's an accumulation of several things: Palin, Bush, financial crisis, his own disorganization,

the campaign he is running, but more than anything he's losing because he's up against Barack Obama.

[monmouth]

6. It is also obvious that he just is not a nice person. That's easy to read...n/t

[robertpaulsen]

7. Shhh...don't tell Pat Buchanan!

This totally undermines his rationale for "the race would be neck and neck if it wasn't for the economic crisis". Sorry Pat, it's the stupid VP!