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...Jennifer W. Howk, conversations about Alaska??s governor hit a little closer to home. Howk, who is a teaching fellow for the College’s introductory comparative politics course, is a native of Wasilla, Alaska, the town Palin presided over for six years as mayor...
...just a minor political figure you’d recognize while shopping at Costco.” Earlier this year, the Alaska Klub—whose main events are the Polar Bear Swim and Human Iditarod—deemed this year the “Year of Alaska?? in honor of Palin. The group’s Facebook profile advertises an open forum—time and location to be announced—on Sarah Palin the “poorly known but very attractive governor.” Smoked wild Alaskan sockeye salmon is supposed...
After capturing the attention of USWeekly magazine and Saturday Night Live, vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is now the focal point of Harvard’s own Alaska Klub, which has declared the 2008-2009 school year “The Year of Alaska?? in her honor...
...president of the Alaska Klub, said he is excited about Sarah Palin’s ability to bring Alaska into the campus spotlight. “Without making a political statement, I think the Palin pick was an exciting choice in that it will help our club raise Alaska??s profile and try to combat common misperceptions about the state,” Treuer said...
...Comparing Palin’s relatively paltry service in the small Wasilla and 20 months as Alaska??s governor to Obama’s tenure as state senator and then U.S. senator for Illinois can only hurt the Republican Party. Her speech weakly hid this fact, instead comparing her tenure as mayor to his pre-Harvard Law School service as community organizer. “I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities,” she quipped...