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...Palin can help McCain through biography as well as resume. She'll be the first woman on a Republican ticket, which the campaign is surely hoping will appeal to Hillary Clinton voters and help reduce Barack Obama's advantage among women. She's a fresh face to counteract Obama's message of change, and she's about as far outside the Beltway as you can get. A child of the middle class with a friendly face and big hair, she is so affable that she once won Miss Congeniality in a beauty pageant. Her son is about to deploy...
...Hillary had a lot of support from three groups," the adviser said. "The first - middle aged, non-college woman - should be Democrats, but they stayed home instead of turning out for Al Gore and John Kerry. They are all about the economy. Those women are not social conservatives, nor are they pro-gun. They are definitely security conscious, and so they may have an issue with someone who has two years experience being a heartbeat away from a 72 year old man. That's asking a lot. That...
...next group, according to the Clinton adviser, is older female voters who, she said, backed Clinton in large numbers because they believed "experience should trump change. They really wanted a more experienced person as President. It was a bonus for these voters was that Hillary was a woman, because it made them proud of her and themselves. But those women are social progressives. I don't see them turning to McCain because of Sarah Palin...
...independent woman who has seen McCain as too old or too stodgy, but who isn't ready to vote for Obama. Some of these are the soft or skeptical Republican voters who might sit it out. Some of these may be evangelical women who may see in Palin something of themselves, but who aren't energized enough to vote...
...being younger and being a woman gives you a better perspective on politics and government than a more traditional politician...