Word: palin
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...America have with the Republican brand,” Vilsack said. Putting it simply, Hochschild said, “McCain has run a poor campaign.” Law professor Alan M. Dershowitz said McCain lowered his chances of capturing the independent vote by adding Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to the ticket. “Independents had their intelligence insulted and their security endangered by McCain’s selection of an incompetent as his running mate,” Dershowitz said. Whatever the outcome of the race, Skocpol said, today marks “one of the most momentous...
...make a difference on animal issues? The Humane Society of the U.S. is rigidly non-partisan. I do hold a position with the Humane Society Legislative Fund, which is a separate organization with a separate board of directors. I think our biggest concern at the legislative fund is Sarah Palin's very hostile record toward animal protection. She was the leader in Alaska of a program that promoted aerial gunning of wolves and bears and that has really raised alarm bells with...
Still, despite Obama's lead in the polls here, there is a feeling that Iowa is still in play, judging from the intensity of the campaigning. Obama drew 25,000 people to a Des Moines rally on Friday. Sarah Palin was in Dubuque Monday afternoon. Palin and McCain also visited Iowa in October. Local staffers and volunteers are still working furiously, canvassing, working the phones and there are robo-calls galore. I got one from Michelle Obama! - By Betsy Rubiner / Des Moines...
...guess is there will be a certain number of conservatives who rally around Palin as the next bright hope. There will be others who say, look, what's killing us is we've got this stand on abortion that's an albatross around our neck. They will look for some champion, somebody of the Jim Leach school of Republican thought...
...September, just around the time that the financial markets imploded and Americans started to learn more about Sarah Palin, Barack Obama started shooting up in New Hampshire polling, and he hasn't looked back. "There's been a real concern about her right-wing identification, particularly on social issues," says Linda Fowler, a political scientist at Dartmouth College. "Palin has just not sat well with independent women here." The running-mate pick may have helped McCain shore up his base in other states, but for New Hampshire's independent-minded voters, it raised questions about his "maverick" reputation and reminded...