GOP Struggles with Identity on Palin's Big Night

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Tigawoods said:

damkira said:
Palin's speech was really underwhelming -- she spent a lot of it talking about her family which is truly irrelevant and her excessive jabs against Obama seemed pretty pathetic and desperate. Most American's don't live in small towns -- they live in cities and suburbs so I don't think pushing this big cultural war between rural and urban America benefits them in any way. Her speech won't win any converts.. it was just red meat thrown out there for conservatives.

To be fair both conventions are taking jabs at each other and that is making up the bulk of the speeches and whatnot. Both sides are extremely guilty of it not just one.

 

 

A lot of people don't realize that (for the most part) few independent voters actually watch all or most of both conventions, and the people who make up the majority of the audience are the (more) dedicated members of either party. The reason that both parties focus so heavily on one-liners is that they're more likely to get seen on the news the next day (which targets the independant voter) and the (more) dedicated members of their party really (REALLY) like them.