I assumed she was referring to viewer share during sweeps week, but no, Sarah Palin meant to say that she thinks she could be elected President of the United States in 2012. The more American elections I live through, the less I doubt that such events are possible.
What sequence of events do you think could result in a Palin presidency?
She needs at least three more crappy reality TV shows.
Ross is onto something: The way that Sarah Palin wins is if Americans keep relying on TV shows for their news.
Obamacare results in Frontal-Lobotomy Panels, which force all Americans to receive frontal-lobotomies right before the election. Obama, once again, defeats himself.
There could be total disarray in the Dem party. Obama gets sick and nobody wants to run in 2012….OR, there is serious corruption revealed in the party. Simultaneously, Reps who previously planned to run, like Romney or Bush, Huckabee or Thune..get nervous and stop trying. Palin is the only one left.
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Is this sarcasm?
Is there a way to answer Jim’s question without being sarcastic?
I think there is. Want me to share?
Sure.
Although people rightly recognize that Sarah Palin won’t ever win a majority of votes of the American people in a presidential election, in a presidential election Palin doesn’t have to win a majority of votes of the American people. She only has to win a majority of electoral votes. And to win the entire set of electoral votes of a state (in most states), she only has to come in first place.
The way Sarah Palin wins the country is the way Paul LePage won the state of Maine: a three-way race in which Sarah Palin runs against a third party or independent corporate person who calls himself or herself “centrist,” in which Barack Obama occupies essentially the same “centrist” position space under the Democratic Party banner, and in which Sarah Palin carries the Republican Party flag. The Green Party will run a candidate as well. The traditional conservative voter pool will not be split, and the fundamentalist part of that pool will be energized to get out and vote by a Palin candidacy. The pro-corporate voter pool (and the voter pool of those who think anything associated with the word “centrist” must be good) will be divided, as will the liberal voter pool. Palin wins most states’ electoral votes even though she only wins a majority of citizens’ votes in a handful of states.
I believe a three-way or four-way race is going to happen, and I think it could play out as described above.
Oh, my bad. I didn’t even see the question at first. I thought Cappa was saying that was the likely course of events.
If she won the WWF vs. WWE “Steel Cage Deathmatch”,
But I’d bet B. Obama could take her 3:5 most days.
She’s mouthy but not especially capable.