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...Bradley effect? I predict a reverse Bradley effect this go-round. It will be fueled by sweet old ladies who have been voting Republican since Eisenhower and rugged blue-collar workers who were Reagan men but who can't bring themselves to press that button and vote for McCain-Palin. They won't admit it to their friends and family - or the exit-poll people. Margie Shepherd, Free Union...
...Campaign '08: Memories... My own "moment to remember" of the 2008 campaign is illustrated by one of your voices, Laura Ingraham: the Republicans' utter lack of vision [Nov. 10]. From McCain down to state assembly candidates, the overwhelming majority of ads never carried the remotest hint of what the Republicans would do if elected. Instead, they produced laundry lists of reasons why not to vote for the opposition. Republican mouthpieces complain that their candidates don't get positive coverage in the "mainstream" media. If you have no message, you probably won't get much coverage. Dennis Sheehan, Waupaca, Wisconsin...
During John McCain's gracious concession speech, he had to pause to quiet his supporters as they booed at the mention of Obama's name. If McCain had conducted his campaign with the grace and honor he showed in defeat instead of stirring up the worst instincts among his party's right-wing base, the outcome of the election might have been different. Bernadette Pruitt, WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS
...interval between one campaign and the next is not usually measured in hours. But votes were still being counted as anonymous advisers to Senator John McCain, amid the smoking rubble of their Obama-bombed effort, began taking Palin down. She was a ditz, they whispered, who didn't know that Africa is a continent, a diva whose $150,000 wardrobe--including silk boxer shorts for hubby Todd--belied her down-home reputation. Talk about airing a campaign's dirty laundry...
...meeting the post-election smear campaign head-on, she may have silenced it. On Nov. 11, McCain appeared on the Tonight Show to announce he "couldn't be happier" with his former running mate, despite polls showing she may have cost their ticket more votes than she earned...