Posted on 09/20/2008 4:39:35 AM PDT by markomalley
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin blew onto the national political scene like a surprise hit movie - with an exciting script, a new landscape, a fresh face - that suddenly everyone wanted to see and talk about.
But now that the Republican vice presidential candidate has been seen and heard by millions - and parodied on "Saturday Night Live" before millions more - a question has been raised about the "Palin Effect." While GOP loyalists apparently still love the movie, is it starting to wear thin on the rest of America, particularly the legions of middle-of-the-road voters?
"Is she a one-hit wonder? Unless she does something radically different from what she's currently doing, yes," Cal State Sacramento political communications Professor Barbara O'Connor said this week. She said that in the 23 days since Palin was named the GOP vice presidential choice, her script has been a limited and increasingly predictable one. "It's fine to say she needed some time to get her footing ... but we're well past that."
Palin's decision to postpone a two-day fundraising and campaign trip to California this week also might say as much about John McCain's campaign troubles this week as it does about her own, insiders say.
Campaign officials said Palin will bolster her foreign policy credentials by appearing with McCain at the United Nations next week. But the Alaska governor has been rescheduled to be almost exclusively at the side of McCain until the election - in part because she boosts the size of GOP activist crowds that the party's presidential candidate can't attract.
Jon Fleischman, the Southern California vice chair of the state GOP, said Palin remains enormously popular with Republicans - and a huge plus for their presidential campaign message.
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0 has to raise more than $110 million in the final two months of the campaign just to break even. His is the most expensive campaign in history.
ad copy for the DNC
Kind of like the 500 million blown on New Coke.
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That made me spew coffee!
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Notice there is no discussion of any “Biden Effect” in the MSM. None.
Depends on how the “effect” is measured? Note that party id is now at rough parity and that conservatives an much more enthusiastic than before. That's the real measure, not variation in horse race polls based on questionable sampling.
“Notice there is no discussion of any Biden Effect in the MSM. None.”
It is sometimes difficult to detect a whiff of methane in a hurricane...
Sorry. I will send an illegal alien your way to clean it up.
They’re drawing more-than-capacity crowds in all the little cow-towns they’re visiting.
Nope. It’s not wearing off. However the wishful thinking by the MSM is wearing THIN!
LOL!
McCain did a great job....they were pumped up and the crowd responded.
Palin got in some sharp barbs on 0bambi...this was new material and up to date.
I detect sour grapes from the dims newspaper....0bambi is toast.....as for Biden...carbonated toast.
30,000 people expected in Fla for one of her speeches doesn’t look much like a “wearing thin” effect.
The left better get used to her because, win or lose, she will be back with a vengence in 2012 with four more years of experience and many battle scars.
“Is ‘Palin Effect’ already wearing thin”?
...”Palin Effect” or news about Palin? The MSM is running out of vile to spew about her and the Lehman, AIG has of course, taken over the news cycle. But when Palin shows at a rally ANYWHERE it’s packed to the gills. Once she kicks Biden’s lame a$$ in the debates and BO starts his stuttering and stammering in his it’ll be over for the Messiah.
I shudder when I hear anything refering to a Clintonista helping our side. While some may be fairly genuine, I can’t help but feel that withing the Dim crossovers that are sincere in their support for McCain/Palin there is some kind of Clinton dirty trick waiting to be sprung. The Clintons will do ANYTHING ro hold on to whatever power thet still lay claim to and work to regain that which has been lost to Obama. If that means piggybacking McCain/Palin for a bit while they work up a new triangulation they absolutely will.
I suspect it wore thin for "tolerant" liberals (oxymoron) the day McCain announced her. But for the rest of us, her "effect" is only getting stronger with each childish jab the left takes. I personally know four Democrats who are voting McCain because of their disgust at the way the Democrats and the media are treating Sarah.
I’m almost starting to feel sorry for the left... almost.
Even the crickets got bored...
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