Word: alaska
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...Friday night, and there have got to be 500 people packed into the Sluice Box, a beer-soaked clapboard honky-tonk at the Alaska State Fair - the state's biggest event all year - just down the highway from Governor Sarah Palin's hometown of Wasilla. The legendary Hobo Jim, Alaska's official state balladeer, the guy who has opened sessions of the legislature with a song, is onstage, working blue...
...that would make lower-48 liberals and feminists cringe. Palin-friendly talk show hosts gush how she'll wow 'em with her toughness - and her legs. State fair t-shirt vendor Kevin Beagley says he remembers one particular customer last year who bought a few t-shirts that said "Alaska: The Coldest State with the Hottest Governor". The buyer? Palin's own father, Chuck Heath...
...guess its almost natural then to think that women, because they stay in one place, might make better politicians in Alaska than...
Sarah Palin will get the most media attention of her life today. But before the Alaska governor ever got into politics - and long before she was the GOP's freshly-minted Vice Presidential candidate - she was a TV reporter. A 1987 graduate of the University of Idaho, she covered Alaskan politics for Anchorage's NBC affiliate. Between 2004 and 2007, after getting into government, she wrote a series of op-eds for the Anchorage Daily News that offer clues about why Sen. McCain picked her in the first place - and what to expect now that she's entered the national...
...happen to him. But Palin's op-eds highlight that her age - she's just 44 - is only one of several counterpoints she could offer to the youth-friendly Obama campaign. A newcomer to national politics herself, having risen from mayor of Wasilla (population 6,715) to governor of Alaska in 2006, she trumpets some of the same calls for change that attract Sen. Obama's followers. "If we want to unleash the energy hidden under North Slope tundra," she wrote in 2006 about Alaska's gas pipeline negotiations, "the best way to get the job done is to unleash...