Sarah Who?

By Ron Beasley

I just heard Thom Hartmann on the radio and he had just been part of an RNC conference call.  The RNC was giving the revised speaking schedule and Sarah Palin was not mentioned.  A reporter from Reuters asked a direct question about when Palin would speak and what the subject would be.  At first the RNC official said he couldn't hear the question and then said no decision had been made.

Time magazine reports that Palin was a dud in Frank Luntz's focus group.

Another week, another Frank Luntz/AARP focus group of undecided voters--this one in Minneapolis and with some bad news for John McCain: they don't like the choice of Sarah Palin for vice president. Only one person said Palin made him more likely to vote for McCain; about half the 25-member group raised their hands when asked if Palin made them less likely to vote for McCain. They had a negative impression of Palin by a 2-1 margin...a fact that was reinforced when they were given hand-dials and asked to react to Palin's speech at her first appearance with McCain on Friday---the dials remained totally neutral as Palin went through her heart-warming(?) biography, and only blipped upwards when she said she opposed the Bridge to Nowhere--which wasn't quite the truth, as we now know.

Greg Sargent has a good run down on all the sh*t that has hit the fan since the Palin announcement.

I suggested here that there was a 50 - 50 chance that Palin would not be the nominee.  I think that's up to 80 - 20.