As much if not more so then I do for Barak Obama's.

Palin has shown a history of being in your face, argumentative and able to get things done. Obama has shown he wants everyone to get along. Be buddy, buddy.

His message is the most bizarre piece of politics I have ever seen. Not that I disagree with his message but the base defines the president. Obama's base hardly want to be conjolers and lets all get along fanatics.

Their idea of bipartisanship is to have a cloture proof majority and just tell America what the new rules are.

Palin will begin the OJT down the street in the executive building. Huge difference.

Palin could be in the White House on Day 2, or Hour 2 of McCain's presidency. McCain is an old guy. A cancer survivor, He went through “enhanced interrogation” in Vietnam. He could be assassinated. His plane could crash. Any number of things could happen and Palin needs to be able to assume the presidency on a moment's notice.

Do you honestly feel comfortable with her qualifications to be president on day one if disaster strikes?

Ill put her views up against Obama. The problem is you guys are comparing apples and oranges.

When Biden was nominated the GOP did not go ape over Biden. They just pointed out what he said about Obama and his record. Hes got a lot of record that will be defined in the next 60 days or so.

However the fact that you guys are comparing Palin to Obama is silly on your part.

It just points to the glaring weakness of YOUR candidate. Obama will begin OJT in the WHITE HOUSE. Palin will begin the OJT down the street in the executive building. Huge difference.

Comparing Obama to Palin is a losing position for the democrats. That is all Im pointing out when I seem to be defending Palin.

Im most likely not going to vote at all or will vote for Barr. However I get dumped on here quite regularly for simply pointing out the obvious that it seems no one wants to hear. My above post was an example that seems to refelct negatively on Obama therefore Bash the Neocon.

instead we get another version of Bush, same story but a different face. I was already fed up with McCain, but his choice of Palin not only solidifies my vote for Obama, but I'll be donating to him as well. McCain just showed us that he's more interested in becoming president, no matter what that does to our country.

Perhaps so. But sooner or later they're also going to hear a little something about her views — or lack of them. So I guess we'll see. Personally, I suspect she's going to have a very long, up-hill climb. But I may be wrong. So far I haven't heard even one post-VP pick interview with her yet. I have no idea how she's going to come across without a script. For all we know it may be something like this.

Sure they do. The average run of the mill non political junkie who flips thru the paper and sees a headline that says McCain is leading by 2 points and goes on might say somewhere in the back of his/her mind…….Hmmm interesting. A woman and a wrinkly white haired old dude is leading against a black and wrinkly white haired old dude. I might just vote for the woman this time.

Again. Not everyone in America are political junkies like the people who hang out on bloggs and comment. Years and years ago I used to believe the papers and the television news too. I was shocked once I started looking into things at the perspective and the agendas each had. My worlds not been the same since.

More interesting is that among undecided voters, Palin is most unimpressive. She rallies the GOP base. But they were rallied by the crap campaign this summer; Republicans love that Rovian trash. But undecided voters – especially women – saw Palin's pick as a joke.

The Real Clear Politics aggregator doesn't include Zogby, which is considered unreliable by many. Of the two polls taken that might show a bounce, Rasmussen has Obama up by 4, Gallup has Obama up by 8. The average, covering the the period 08/18 – 08/29 (i.e, including pre-bounce polling) has Obama up by 3.9.

Presumably, the selection of Palin was intended to squelch any bounce. We won't know if that happened for a few days. We also won't know if Palin really helps for a few days. As you said, that might be easier strategized than done.

From the September, 2006 Issue of the Columbia Journalism Review:

“When reached by phone last week, Cliff Zukin, a political science professor and polling expert at Rutgers University, suggests that journalists should generally be wary of any Zogby interactive poll.

“The Zogby stuff, on scientific grounds, is quite questionable,” says Zukin. “Online, Internet, opt-in polling, where people volunteer to be respondents, doesn’t really have a basis in scientific validity. There are two kinds of samples in the world. There are probability samples, and there are non-probability samples.”

The Zogby interactive polls, says Zukin, clearly fall into the latter camp. “With probability samples, when everybody has a known chance of being selected, you can make pretty valid inferences about the population from which it is drawn,” says Zukin. “You can’t do that at all with self-selected surveys. That’s a problem.”