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Funny that almost all of the candidates from 2010 and this year disagree with you and credit Governor Sarah Palin with significantly boosting their campaigns, if not being the decisive factor. Google it.

48 posted on 08/04/2012 5:44:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)

People think the Southern Strategy was a decisive factor in turning the South Republican, but if you start digging into the numbers, you will find that growth in income and wealth was the decisive factor in the Southern shift from Democratic to Republican.

People think that negative adds depress turnout, despite all evidence to the contrary.

And until last week, a lot of people believed that high turnout in the TX run-off meant David Dewhurst would win.

What people believe doesn't concern me as much as what the evidence shows really happened. And there's no evidence that an endorsement (from anyone) was a decisive factor in the TX primary.