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Until recently, the Dems' precarious power in the Senate meant that Lieberman could pretty much say what he wanted. Al Gore's 2000 running mate, he had been forced to run for re-election in 2006 as an independent after liberals groups angry over his support for the war in Iraq helped mount a successful primary challenge. Since then, Lieberman has caucused with the Democrats - his presence among their ranks giving them control of the Senate with a 51-49 majority - while siding with the Bush Administration on Iraq and the war on terror...
...fundraising and networking with conservatives across the country. Could she win? Palin has shown her ability to connect with the conservative base, and she knows how to inspire donors to write checks. The McCain campaign raised $4.4 million in the first 12 hours after she debuted as his running mate, and by the end of that weekend, the total was $10 million. (On the other hand, Obama also raised $10 million in the 24 hours after Palin's convention speech.) For a party that never was entirely comfortable with its nominee, she was, in a sense, the anti-McCain - young...
John McCain's selection of Palin, a former Pentecostal Christian, as his running mate was supposed to help strengthen his appeal to religious voters. Republican strategists knew that undecided religious voters broke heavily for George W. Bush in the last weeks of the 2004 campaign, and they hoped Palin's candidacy would sway those voters to the GOP again this year. Instead, those late deciders - including white Evangelicals - appear to have split between Obama and McCain...
...McCain's swing to the right during the primaries still wasn't enough to win over many conservatives. That forced him to pursue a strategy during the general election that put galvanizing the Republican base ahead of inspiring centrist swing voters. By selecting as his running mate Sarah Palin, an inexperienced favorite of conservatives, over alternatives who would have appealed to independents, McCain not only missed a chance to win over those voters but also undermined his greatest advantage over Barack Obama - his deep record on national security. At a critical moment, McCain simply gave the experience card away...
...ahead, and praised his victory as a civil rights breakthrough of particular significance for black Americans. "Let there be no reason now for any American to fail to cherish their citizenship in this the greatest nation on earth," he told the crowd, flanked by his wife, Cindy, his running mate, Sarah Palin, and her husband, Todd...