Stranger in a strange land
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« on: January 16, 2008, 07:02:34 PM » |
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People in consultant-land (as you so brilliantly put it) think Pawlenty is a great candidate because he's a conservative who got elected twice in a liberal state, one that Republicans have been trying and failing to win for years.
They assume that if Pawlenty is on the ticket, IA and WI, and maybe even MI, will be given the little push they need to flip Republican. This despite the fact that Pawlenty's margins have hardly been commanding, voters are far more partisan at the federal level than they are at the state level, and that the Midwest doesn't have a strong regionalist mentality. Lastly, some people still cling to the belief that a vice-presidential nominee is enough by himself to swing his state or region to the ticket (see: John Edwards, 2004, Lloyd Bentsen, 1988, Jack Kemp, 1996)
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