The numbers could easily plummet as well.
Is Palin disciplined enough to stay on pre-recorded message or does she go off on her own? What IS the message since McCain just undercut the "experienced" issue? How well does Palin handle pressure? How well does she do 'interview?' How well can she work without a net?
None of these are answerable by anyone. Got to wait and see.
McCain can't keep her under wraps or in any way look like she is a 'kept' - however defined - woman. Otherwise the backlash will reverberate long past the election.
The risk of her simply saying something stupid is very high, because she's apparently been quite open about her lack of interest in foreign affairs. That's the biggest problem. And it'd be catastrophic, if she did it in the debate with Biden -- something along the lines of Ford saying, "There's no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, and there never will be under a Ford administration." Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
The question is whether the media feels comfortable enough with the "not experienced enough to be VP, let alone President" meme to actually go after her when she, like, lies like a carpet. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
