Palin pick turned off young voters: poll

[maddezmom]

Source: AFP

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The choice by Republican presidential candidate John McCain of 44-year-old Sarah Palin as his running mate failed to woo young voters and even turned some of them off McCain, a Harvard University pollster said Wednesday.

"During the vice presidential selection process, I took a lot of phone calls from reporters, pundits and campaign people who thought the Palin pick was going to re-energize the youth vote and get young people to take a second look at McCain," John Della Volpe, director of polling at Harvard's Institute of Politics, told reporters.

"We now have data that indicate that the choice of Palin didn't help and probably hurt the Republican ticket," he said, as he presented the findings of a poll on young voters' attitudes.

Out of more than 2,400 people between the ages of 18 and 24 who were surveyed over the course of four weeks in September and this month, 40 percent said the Palin pick made them less likely to support the Republican ticket, the poll showed.



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[opihimoimoi]

1. Someone thought it would be a good idea....and now they find out...it wasn't...made it worse...LOL

I love it....

[eyesroll]

2. Heh...and I wonder how many of the people who answered "no difference"

so answered because they were never, ever going to vote for the Republican ticket in the first place.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. I've come to the conclusion the Palin pick was made by a closet Obama supporter

They have to be, there is no way they could mess up this colossally by accident.

[TheEuclideanOne]

4. Show some confidence, of course they could.

This is simply one more example of it.

[BlueStateMind]

5. it was definitley an inside job

1. Fact: she wasn't vetted at all
2. Fact: McCain is a pariah among his own party
3. Fact: the Republicans were screwed anyway. to them 8 years of McCain is probably in some ways worse than 4 years under Obama.

Ever since the Palin nomination, I've been convinced his campaign was being 86'ed by his own people. A republican party with McCain out of the picture is a much more unified front.

[Vidar]

19. Sure they could: she's just Dan Quayle in a skirt.

[saigon68]

23. NO ---- Dan Quale was smarter

He sucessfully dodged the draft.

Her head is an empty space between the ears.

[Merlot]

27. After messing up the economy so spectacularly

picking palan was a piece of cake by comparison

[KoKo]

6. Thank GOD for that "Younger Generation!" They have some SMARTS!

GOOD ON THEM! :applause: They can see a crook/faker/Pretender...miles away!

[Raschel]

7. Younger people aren't as jaded, they can spot a phony easily. n/t

[Crowman1979]

12. All thanks to YouTube!

The greatest thing on the internet besides this site and myspace.

[FVZA_Colonel]

15. Youtube may not be a big money maker for Google (I could be wrong),

but it is one of the greatest things to happen to American democracy in the Internet Age.

[notadmblnd]

8. The mommy image doesn't appeal to them

[customerserviceguy]

22. They saw themselves

at the wrong end of Caribou Barbie's shotgun, should they ever have a contraception failure. Levi Johnston looked pretty damn nervous standing on the stage at the Repuke convention, I'm sure a lot of guys took a look at him and shuddered at the thought of being used as a political tool that way.

[buddysmellgood]

9. Republicans think young people are stupid eom

[vagabund]

10. young voters are smarter

having more knowledge than the rest of the population, they know that Palin is a dangerous individual.

[The Brethren]

11. McCain was too confident.

He believed she would draw most of the young voters because she's almost half his age and acts like she's on high doses of caffeine all the time. Or maybe it's meth. LOL

Am glad to see younger voters are smarter then McCain.

[Crowman1979]

13. Young people don't want to fight in McCain's wars.

And I've had it with fighting Bush's wars, so fuck em!

[tclambert]

14. Already heard "the Palin effect" described as something that cost John McCain votes

amongst moderate voters. But it is still too soon and too unclear to put that term in the dictionary. With a McCain loss, analysts and pundits and bloggers will be casting about for excuses, and "the Palin effect" may become canon law. If McCain wins, besides praising a Republican god for his mercy, McCain supporters will insist "the Palin effect" was a blessing that helped him win.

[Mz Pip]

16. She turned me off

and I'm old.

She came across as someone who was auditioning for a spot as a spokemodel for a single use appliance. You know the kind - looks really cool on TV and then after you buy it you only use it once.

Maybe if you're lucky you can unload it at a garage sale.

[sutz12]

21. Maybe because she is a "single use appliance"

;)

[happygoluckytoyou]

17. yes, thats what happens when you think that the younger generation is looking for a soccer mommy!!!!

[happygoluckytoyou]

18. Want MY vote....ASK !!! Next time you'll offer up that biker with a Famosiz tattoo on his buttcheek

[CoffeeCat]

20. Those of us who aren't spring chickens...

...aren't exactly turned "on" either!

Let me tell you!

[mikeytherat]

24. Attention brain-dead GOPers! I have two words for you: Rudy Guiliani.

I also have two more words for you: Fred Thompson.

Two former saviours of the party! Especially Rudy "Captain 911" Ghouliani. How many times did I hear about "America's Mayor," "Mr. 911," etc. and how he would beat anyone by a mile. I mean, my God, he was America's Mayor on 911!!! What could go wrong?

People actually met him.

Yep. Same problem Palin has: unimpressive from a distance, and scary up close and personal. The more you know, the more you dislike.

By the way, my Republican friends: While running for President in 2008, Rudy Guiliani spent $50,000,000 and got ONE, count 'em, ONE delegate. You might want to pause and think about that.

mikey_the_rat

[CountAllVotes]

25. not only young voters, but many middle-aged women too!

Even my racist idiot of a "friend" in Tennessee was appalled by Palin's son. She referred to him as being the "mongoloid". :dunce:

I told her that the child has Down Syndrome and is not a "mongoloid". :dunce:

It is about the only thing we agree on these days: Sarah Palin has no business running for VP with a very sick, very disabled child!

:kick:

[DemWynner]

26. A Republican I work with

Asked me, so how do you like that Sara Palin?, expecting me to like her just because she is a woman. He was very surprised when I told him what I really thought, that she is not a good representative of women and she is not qualified in the least to be in this position.
It burns my butt to he idiots think just because I am a woman, I will like Sara Palin.

[JustAnotherGen]

28. I'm not exactly young anymore

I'm 35. But the whole 'Mommy' thing was never something I was going to relate to. Like being a "Mom" qualified her. :sarcasm: