" So, is the Palin poll now "scientific"? Absolutely not. It is still subject to large scale efforts on the left and the right to mobilize people to vote. The poll has become something of a Rorschach test, a tiny political marker in a tightly contested race. Over the past two weeks, the results of the poll see-sawed back and forth from a majority saying "No" to a majority saying, "Yes". At the moment the single-voter system was implemented, it was close to a tie: 50% say Sarah Palin is qualified to serve as Vice President, and 48% say no. Those results, in my view, are actually a measure of the mobilization and manipulation efforts by partisans on both sides."
—PBS on Palin Poll
The "Palin Poll," like so many others, is meant more as a headline-grabber than an honest investigation.
Sarah Palin is obviously the result of a Hail Mary effort to recruit the disappointed hard rightists who were going to stay at home.
If McCain were honestly trying to win on the issues, he would have picked Condoleeza Rice.
Posted by: DIck Brandlon | October 05, 2008 at 03:46 PM