[ASTalumna06]

If you walked down the street and asked 20 random people two questions:

1.) Which candidate spent $150,000 on clothes?

2.) Who is Nancy Pelosi?

(or any other combination of meaningless question vs. an important one) I guarantee that at least half of the people could answer the first question and not the second.

The point is, all of the people who answer #1 correctly won't be Democrats and all of the people who answer #2 correctly won't be Republicans.

I truly believe that the reason Palin was pointed at more frequently in this campaign is because she was McCain's choice. Not ours. Obama was running for president himself, and he made it to the top through votes. Palin was seen as a joke from day one, if only because nobody knew who she was, and McCain's decision was seen as one to simply get votes from women. And then on day two, all hell broke loose with the news of her pregnant daughter.

All four candidates fumbled, but the ones that were hit harder were Palin and Biden. And no one can sit here and say that Palin didn't dig her own grave. She couldn't even give Katie Couric the name of a newspaper or magazine she reads.

Basically, there are no conclusions to be reached from this website, and it has nothing to do with why Obama won the election. There were questions like "Who said that there were 57 states?" but nothing asking, "Where does Obama stand on the economic crisis plaguing the country?" And there will always be people who vote for candidates for ridiculous reasons, there's no getting around that. This year, it was because Obama was black, or because McCain was old. In four years, people might like the hairstyle of one of the presidential candidates... who knows!

If you're going to try and make an accusation like "The media is the reason Obama won," you at least need a more extensive interview process than asking 10 people random questions that have nothing to do with actual campaign policies and ideas.