Word: ticket
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...Just a little more than 10 years ago," Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin told TIME this week, "it was inconceivable to any of us that we would see an African American win a national party's ticket and then compete effectively. It's mind-boggling," she continued, "how much this means about the opportunities available to all people - Asians, Latinos and other people who've historically been locked out of the system." (See pictures of Election 2008 in the heart of the Civil Rights struggle...
...fact, she cost the GOP ticket more than she helped it. In that poll, 59% said they didn't think she was qualified to be Vice President - a view shared by many mandarins of the GOP. But the enthusiasm she briefly generated made gaming Palin's next move a popular sport. Will she join the big-money speaker's circuit? Become, as Tina Fey joked, the "white Oprah"? Run for Senate? Run for President in 2012 as the new face of a reinvented Republican Party...
...spent the last several weeks and months clinging onto my belief in the old John McCain, still hoping he could pull through as the change we needed. Yet as I cast my absentee ballot for the McCain-Palin ticket last week, I understood why undecided voters would find the Obama-Biden train more appealing. Somewhere along the campaign trail, John McCain lost his ability to inspire voters. I’m sad he’s lost, but I’m sadder that he played such a deliberate role in the reason for his defeat...
...Dobson may be the only Evangelical whose Sunday school teacher apparently never warned him to be careful what he prayed for. Two weeks before Election Day, the Focus on the Family founder chatted with Sarah Palin on his radio show and shared his backup plan for the struggling GOP ticket. He was, Dobson told her, praying for "God's intervention" and that "God's perfect will be done on November...
...wins, it certainly won't lift the heavy heart of Alaska governor and vanquished vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Relations between Stevens and Palin are icy. She ran for governor on a platform that railed against the kind of corruption that Stevens now represents. And now that the McCain/Palin ticket has been punched, it may add insult to injury for her to discover her beloved Alaska constituents actually prefer crotchety legislators who bring home the bacon...