Here’s another reason why Sarah Palin failed as Sen. John McCain’s 2008 vice presidential running mate: The whole “hockey mom” thing that was supposed to win over soccer moms flopped.
A new report from the authoritative American Politics Research journal finds that her story of being a mom of five hockey playing kids held no appeal to the rest of parents. “Palin fared particularly poorly among married mothers,” it said, because her candidacy “did not hold any special appeal to mothers or fathers.”
And on Election Day, added the journal, “Mothers, like women overall, were a very solid Democratic voting block in 2008.”
It’s just the latest review of her candidacy that describes just what a mistake McCain’s pick from left field was, a nomination that the Republican Party and Mitt Romney promise they won’t repeat.
