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According to John McCain, no. According to others, you may take your pick of opinions, from Christian Conservative conspiracies making him do it to the outright crude suggestions that he picked her freely, but based upon her obvious attractiveness.
Perhaps better would be to ask if Parties ever do force their candidates to pick certain running mates. The answer would be "yes" and "no".
Obviously pressure may be brought to bear, and it may well have been in the case of John McCain picking Sarah Palin. The Party may well of thought that given a black Democratic candidate, that they needed some kind of minority.
On the other hand, ultimately, the choice was the candidate's. And McCain is savvy and experienced enough not to bow to pressure to take on a running mate that he thought would tank his chances. After all, if he didn't think she'd be of help, why not then just say "no" to his party? He'd be better off not running, then to run and lose.
Logic suggests then that even if the Party strongly hinted, that McCain himself freely chose Palin.
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