Uh oh, Sarah Palin better do some serious studying this week. The close presidential race between Obama and McCain has put Governor Palin's campaign for vice president into the spotlight. After Friday's Obama/McCain debate, 52% of viewers said Obama had the better proposals to fix the country's problems, while only 35% favored McCain. Apparently, McCain needs all the help he can get.
The Republican Party hopes that Palin's debate with Obama's vice presidential candidate, Joe Biden, will be a "game changer." McCain even assigned his own debate coach, Brett O'Donnell, to work with Palin this week. She is staying with McCain at his ranch in Arizona to prepare for Thursday's debate.
Why the big fuss? It seems that since Palin's surprising nomination a month ago, she has only brought close scrutiny to McCain's campaign. Several "shaky performances" by Palin have lead to the disapproval of many republicans, and this lack of confidence in the Alaskan governor has negatively affected her ratings in recent polls. Last week, almost 50% of respondents to a Wall Street Journal/NBC news poll stated that in their opinion, Palin is not qualified to serve as vice president.
Recent disappointments by Palin include her weak interview with Katie Couric and her statements about Pakistan that McCain had to personally retract. However, some prominent Republicans have expressed concern that all this coaching is compromising Palin’s expression of her own views on important matters.
Well, we don’t have long to wait until we see if all this coaching pays off. Because Palin is such a new face on the national scale, everyone will be watching to see if she stands her own against Biden.
So will she crack under pressure, as she has so many times before? Or will she prove the critics wrong? Personally, I can’t wait to see her next slip up.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/28/mccain-retracts-palins-pakistan-comments/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122265784614384667.html?mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy
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