women voters, nearly a quarter of those women saying that they are more likely to vote for mccain on the ticket. that was a totally reasonable analysis and also seemingly a reasonable reaction, initial reaction, to the surprise choice of sarah palin. how did it work out? the assessment that it was going to help, was it based on sarah palin s stance on the issues is of the assessment that palin would help with women voters was based specifically on the pact that she was a woman. for all the impact that the choice that palin had had on the presidential election and politics. since that election, for all of the impact that sarah palin had on everything in american politics, one thing the choice of sarah palin did not do was earn john mccain women voters. to be fair, we can t say historically how many women voters he would have gotten without sarah palin. but he did really poorly with