A Helping Hand
Posted on Sun Nov 16, 2008 at Sunday, November 16th, 2008 by Christian HicksI though this was pretty interesting statistics. 56% of women voters voted for Obama/Biden, while only 43% voted for McCain/Palin. At first glance, it might not look like Palin helped out McCain win women’s votes, but she did help him out a lot. McCain actually beat Obama among white women voters with 53% of the votes over Obama’s 46%. This helped him win 39% of the votes.
I think that McCain would have lost the women’s votes without Palin being his running mate. If McCain hadn’t chosen Palin as his running mate, he would have lost the election by even more. McCain had absolutely no chance of winning the election before chosing his running mate, but once he chose Palin, he actually had a chance.