Worst election analysis ever

[they don't love you like i love you]

Attacking a specific and large segment of the country with such a broad brush is simply idiotic. We're not even talking about a political group or economic class here, but rather people who live in a certain type of area. Of which there are those that vote Republican, even if not a majority, though they might be in some cases (NE-02 anyone?) And as stated before, Palin governs a state which is basically one half a city and the other half a bunch of empty spaces, so she's in effect condemning half her state, of which without it the state might as well be a wasteland.

The fact that J. J. of all people is defending such a campaign too is the hight of hackery.

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Obviously rural Vermont loves Palin.

[Alcon]

Obviously rural Vermont loves Palin.

Spotlight fallacy, falsely assuming a correlation...

I don't buy J. J.'s thesis either, but you're basically doing what he did

[minionofmidas]

Sarah Palin opened the door on the whole "urban v. rural" words war the minute she opened her mouth as the VP nominee.  Her disdain for "big city liberals" was obvious from the very beginning.  That's not to say there hasn't been a long-standing partisan divide between urban and rural areas but Palin is the one who injected the vitriol into the presidential campaign.  Her rhetoric was hostile and combative to the point that it sometimes appeared she was rallying people for war rather than giving a campaign speech.  The emotional reactions she generated in people were downright frightening at some points.  For that reason, I view her as one of the most dangerous politicians in the country.  So I have no time for anyone who wants to sit around crying about how Sarah Palin was picked on.  The media was absolutely right to shut her down as nothing more than a bully who needs to be stopped. 

she brought it on herself though: telling half the country they don't live in the "Real America" is a stupid, stupid campaign strategy.

it went down that way... but of course she was referring to a major city when she coined the phrase.
Unless I remember it wrong.

Oh, and: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_America
lol.

[Holmes]

rural Vermont

That's like saying "urban DC".

[minionofmidas]

Sarah Palin opened the door on the whole "urban v. rural" words war the minute she opened her mouth as the VP nominee.  Her disdain for "big city liberals" was obvious from the very beginning.  That's not to say there hasn't been a long-standing partisan divide between urban and rural areas but Palin is the one who injected the vitriol into the presidential campaign.  Her rhetoric was hostile and combative to the point that it sometimes appeared she was rallying people for war rather than giving a campaign speech.  The emotional reactions she generated in people were downright frightening at some points.  For that reason, I view her as one of the most dangerous politicians in the country.  So I have no time for anyone who wants to sit around crying about how Sarah Palin was picked on.  The media was absolutely right to shut her down as nothing more than a bully who needs to be stopped. 

she brought it on herself though: telling half the country they don't live in the "Real America" is a stupid, stupid campaign strategy.

it went down that way... but of course she was referring to a major city when she coined the phrase.
Unless I remember it wrong.

Oh, and: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_America
lol.

Well talking in one, anyhow.