What impact did Sarah Palin have on John McCain's candidacy?

<< 2008 Presidential Election

Recent Opinions

Hugh Hewitt
	Sarah Palin had a positive impact on John McCain's candidacy. "With the selection of Governor Palin most of us are convinced he will win."
	7/9/2009 5:25:14 PM

Ted Nugent
	Sarah Palin had a positive impact on John McCain's candidacy. Sarah Palin Is My Girl
	7/9/2009 12:01:44 PM

Michael S. Steele
	Sarah Palin had a positive impact on John McCain's candidacy. "I think she helped immensely."
	7/9/2009 11:42:35 AM

Mitt Romney
	Sarah Palin had a positive impact on John McCain's candidacy. "She got out there and just lit the place up, and was able to draw a lot of support from across the nation. She's a powerful voice."
	7/8/2009 11:43:03 PM

Ari Fleischer
	Sarah Palin had a positive impact on John McCain's candidacy. "The only time he ever was winning after he announced Sarah Palin."
	7/8/2009 6:10:10 PM

John McCain
	Sarah Palin had a positive impact on John McCain's candidacy. She inspired people, she still does.
	11/12/2008 10:53:25 AM

Kathleen Parker
	Sarah Palin had a negative impact on John McCain's candidacy. many conservatives shifted away for what we might call the "P Factor": Sarah Pali
	11/11/2008 7:20:55 AM

James Webb
	Sarah Palin had a negative impact on John McCain's candidacy. "ruined his campaign"
	11/11/2008 7:10:40 AM

Michelle Malkin
	Sarah Palin had a positive impact on John McCain's candidacy. "she vigorously defended the Second Amendment and the sanctity of life more eloquently in practice than any of the educated conservative aristocracy"
	11/10/2008 11:17:00 PM

Jack Welch
	Sarah Palin had a positive impact on John McCain's candidacy. In my opinion, an absolute net gain.
	11/10/2008 11:16:37 PM

Ed Rendell
	Sarah Palin had a negative impact on John McCain's candidacy. It drove the last of the Republican moderates into the Democratic column.
	11/10/2008 4:45:10 AM

Cable News Network
	Sarah Palin had a negative impact on John McCain's candidacy. "Unfortunately for McCain, the Alaska governor hurt his presidential bid more than she helped."
	11/10/2008 4:44:54 AM

Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
	Sarah Palin had a positive impact on John McCain's candidacy. if you talk to people on the ground, the volunteers, the door-to-door knockers [for McCain], they were invisible until McCain selected Palin.
	11/9/2008 7:50:31 PM

Roger Cohen
	Sarah Palin had a negative impact on John McCain's candidacy. Sarah Palin, who personified the very “country-first” intolerance and Bush-like small-mindedness of which many Americans had grown as weary as the world has.
	11/9/2008 7:49:57 PM

Roger Simon
	Sarah Palin had a negative impact on John McCain's candidacy. McCain might be a steady hand, but Palin clearly was not, and when you are a 72-year-old nominee, voters are going to look at your running mate pretty closely.
	11/9/2008 7:49:34 PM

William Kristol
	Sarah Palin had a positive impact on John McCain's candidacy. Among voters who say Palin mattered, it was a slight advantage to McCain.
	11/9/2008 7:49:15 PM

Andrew Sullivan
	Sarah Palin had a negative impact on John McCain's candidacy. If Krauthammer and Kristol can't recognize that their bet on Palin was based on nothing... they will not understand why their side lost so badly.
	11/9/2008 7:48:48 PM

Bill Maher
	Sarah Palin had a negative impact on John McCain's candidacy. "Sarah Palin was a bit of an Alaskan albatross around John McCain's neck"
	11/8/2008 5:51:05 PM

USA Today
	Sarah Palin had a negative impact on John McCain's candidacy. When it comes to picking vice presidents, two firm rules apply. First, do no harm to your campaign. Second, pick someone who is ready to be president.
	11/8/2008 5:48:43 PM

Charles Krauthammer
	Sarah Palin had a negative impact on John McCain's candidacy. Undercut arguments against Obama's unreadiness
	11/8/2008 5:43:54 PM