Has Sarah Palin Motivated the Very Voters That Obama Needs to Win?

By Don Hazen, AlterNet. Posted September 12, 2008.

By ignoring the needs of single women, Palin may have lit a fire under
the country's biggest voting bloc -- one with the power to swing the
election.

Sarah Palin's coming-out speech at the Republican convention was
remarkable for several reasons. First, it was watched by an astounding
37 million people. That's more than the Oscars and the World Series,
though still a million less than those who watched Barack Obama's
historic Mile High Stadium speech.

The Palin speech was shocking for its aggressive attacks against
Obama, and it was full of condescending misrepresentations of Obama
and his record. Palin used a lot of what Rachel Maddow has taken to
calling lies on her new MSNBC show (joining a chorus of journalists
who are trying to shame the corporate media into acknowledging
mendacity when they know it to be present).