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...along comes Palin, McCain's wildest move yet - the Top Gun fighter jock, alone in his jet, throwing the stick hard over just to see what might happen - and she turns out to be everything the base could dream of. For at least one night, they saw a Reagan in heels, and they decided maybe they could trust McCain with their real priority: the Supreme Court...
McCain understands that if he wins Michigan, it could put him over the top. His first campaign stop after the Republican National Convention is tomorrow in Macomb County, home of the white working-class voters who became Reagan Democrats in the 1980s. But McCain's decision not to pick Mitt Romney as his running mate may have made his odds a little longer. The former Massachusetts governor and Michigan native was the one potential Veep that Democrats in the state feared. And they believe Obama's current 4-point lead in state polls will only grow as voters...
...that everyone from the gun owners to the PTA moms to the Pentecostals to the first timers felt warm in the embrace. "Sa-rah! Sa-rah!" the delegates roared, and the hall that felt like a tomb on Monday might as well have seen the Second Coming of Ronald Reagan, so ecstatic was the crowd...
...political influence was felt in the frank positioning of the GOP as the God Party - even more than in past conventions, speakers were free with Scripture citations, religious exhortations and mentions of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Other Republicans received video tributes - Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and, of course, Ronald Reagan. There was a film and abundant praise for the president's father, former President George H.W. Bush, whose appearance in the hall with wife Barbara brought the drowsy crowd of delegates to its feet. They chanted "Forty-one! Forty-one!" in honor of Bush Sr.'s place in the parade...
...voters would vote liberal, Cannon noted that the 1972 presidential election proved that notion false, as young people abandoned Democrat George McGovern's campaign in droves for Republican Richard Nixon's successful candidacy. That result happened again in 1980, as young people overwhelmingly turned out to support Republican Ronald Reagan...