[St Charles Owl]

Picking a woman to try to get the female vote is a sound policy but the choice of Palin was such a bad one!!! The Republican Party used her to appeal to the far right base as they were so unsure about moderate McCain being able to motivate that base to bother voting. I think the woman thing was secondary, almost a by product of that, but it was something that looked progressive. Problem was the Republican base did turn out and vote, but in places that were always going to be red anyway, and the female independents or moderate Democrats also turned out but voted Obama, as there was no way they were voting for a women that far to the right.