re: #579 jwb7605

The only argument I’ve got with that analysis is the last point. Without Palin, I think it would have been 60-40 Obama, instead of 52-48. Palin was the reason the religious far-right didn’t stay home.
I did not support Palin on a religious-far-right basis — it was for other equally stupid reasons. I do have, though, several (meaning tens and tens) of in-laws that are, in fact, religious far-right. I base my observations on that small sampling.

And I think that for every religious fundamentalist Sarah Palin brought in, she turned off two fence-sitters who might have gone for McCain.