M-D Poll: Lieberman vs. Palin

Greg Sargent at TPMElectionCentral posted about the results of the Mason-Dixon poll (pdf) which was done on Aug. 25th & 26th.

You would think that Joe would at least help a McCain/Lieberman ticket in Florida and Connecticut but you would be wrong. The pollsters were prescient enough to have included Sarah Palin's name in the poll as well.

Greg summarizes the poll this way:

Twenty-seven percent of voters in Florida, where there's a large concentration of Jewish voters, say they're less likely to back McCain with Lieberman on the ticket. Half that -- 14% -- say they're more likely. Fifty-six percent say Lieberman's presence would make no difference.

Polls have shown that Lieberman on the ticket would even hurt McCain in his home state of Connecticut. If Lieberman hurts McCain in Connecticut and Florida, where the heck would Lieberman help him?

Well, I'm sure that simplified McCain's selection process.

Now we just have to figure out criteria he was using which told him a governor of Alaska not quite 2 years into her 1st term is qualified to be president if he drops dead. Which really isn't all that remote a possibility given his age and the toll that not-torture inevitably took on his body.

In the Recognize / Not Recognize question in the M-D poll, she had a 75% Don't Recognize response.

They also asked would your vote be more likely, less likely or not affected if she was the veep choice. And it's here that you can see why perhaps McCain chose her.

It doesn't make any difference whether or not her name was on the ticket. 62% said it would have no effect on their vote, 33% weren't sure, 4% said less likely and 1% more likely.

So who knows what went through McCain's mind.

Obama's choice of Biden looks even better from this angle.