Is the choice of John McCain's running mate a sincere promotion of a woman, or is it a ploy to get cheap vote?

Question

Is the choice of John McCain's running mate a sincere promotion of a woman, or is it a ploy to get cheap vote?

Answer 1

Expensive vote. Yup, it's all a ploy.

Answer 2

Yup a ploy, but better looking than mrs C.

Answer 3

A desperate ploy to get Hillary supporters/women's votes.

Answer 4

Definitely a ploy to pander to the born agains.

Answer 5

ploy for a vote. he is not for the people.

Answer 6

I'm a brit so feel free to ignore me but from what I've heard about McCain's choice for VP, the lady seems pretty impressive.  Obama's choice also seemed ok given Biden's foreign policy expertise but I then read that, some years ago, he used the content of a Neil Kinnock speech and passed it off as his own.  Now it's very possible that you folks in the US are not familiar with Kinnock but, if you were, you would know that this is a very bad judgement call.  He is known as the Welsh windbag.

Answer 7

just a ploy  

Answer 8

It's as sincere as the rest of the presidential race.  She has a great reputation and over an 80% approval rating in Alaska.  Either way, it's going to be historical and good for the country.