Yes,


Sarah Palin choice alienated Catholics, Jews, Muslims, non-religious

In pandering to the religious right by joining up with a hard-line, gun-totin' pentecostal, McCain seriously alienated the religious middle-of-the-road. Religious liberals would already vote Democrat, but the great undecided may have realized, or perhaps just felt without knowing explicitly, that the Republican right has shifted to the far, far right and now the Democrats fill the place of the old Republicans, the ones that used to care about people even just a tiny bit...