I took a survey of all the people with whom I've had face-to-face contact this day, the day after the governor of Alaska gave her speech.
This does not include strangers on the sidewalk, and a small town in a small county in the Sandhills of Nebraska of course is not necessarily representative of the nation as a whole.
(a) the neighbor: always been for whoever the (R) is
(b) the neighbor's wife: was mildly for the (R), now more strongly so
(c) the soil scientist's best friend from their sorority days: was going to vote (R) anyway
(d) the old guy across the river: always been for whoever the (R) is
(e) the old guy's daughter from California: apolitical, but going to vote (R)
(f) the prairie archaeologist from New York: apolitical, leans left, but now mildly leans (R)
(g) the village idiot: was always going to vote for whoever the (D) is
(h) the guy who mows the grass here: always been for whoever the (R) is
(i) the mother-in-law of the neighbor, from Omaha: was going (D), now leaning vigorously (R)
(j) the cashier at the grocery store: was mildly (D), now mildly (R)
(h) the clerk at the convenience store: never political, but now for the (R)
(c) the best friend of the soil scientist, thinks the soil scientist was not going to vote for president (D) at all, but now suspects she's leaning towards actually voting (R)
The soil scientist of course was the only enthusiastic supporter of the worthier Democrat candidate, and her vote, or non-vote, I always considered significant. Remember, she was hounded by the Obamaites, spewed with Hate and rage and anger and intolerance. She always considered herself a Democrat loyalist, in the same sense franksolich has always been a Republican loyalist.
Sorry there's no bouncy to this.
