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...very political decision," Lichte said). That's especially true in the tanker contract, because Northrop Grumman's partnership with the Airbus consortium led to complaints that jobs would be lost overseas. It also makes clear that Gates' June decision to take away the Air Force's power to pick the winner and reserve it for himself wasn't sufficient to salve the wounds of the Air Force's botched efforts...
...Texas, where McCain leads Obama by 11 percentage points, they already have 15 paid staff, which they insist is an investment for the future. "We certainly don't think it's a waste of money to be there," Hildebrand says, "There's a potential House seat we could pick up there and there's a real shot at winning back the State Senate this fall. With redistricting coming up it's very important as to who controls the legislative body there...
Palin has a predictably homespun answer. "As the mother of five, I know how to multitask," said the governor in a recent statement. But it's clear that Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell, 46, will pick up a number of executive functions while Palin - midway through a four-year gubernatorial term - multitasks elsewhere...
...Although it's not technically written in Alaska, this blog has been one of Sarah Barracuda's biggest boosters for more than a year. Launched by Adam Brickley when he was a University of Colorado student in February 2007, it was created to urge the McCain campaign to pick Palin as a running mate. Brickley, who attended the Republican National Convention, got a personal phone call from the Palins the day that news of her candidacy broke...
...voted for Republican candidates in the 2006 midterm elections, which was one of the reasons the party lost both houses of Congress. And as much as Palin pleases the conservative base of the party, white women were the real target audience McCain was aiming at with his surprise pick of the Alaska governor. The campaign hopes female voters will relate to her thoroughly modern and complicated everywoman story, even if they don't agree with her on the issues. (See photos of Sarah Palin here...