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Published 8/30/2008 at L.A. Times - Politics

Alaska's governor and McCain's VP selection is enormously popular in her state, despite some tensions with other Alaska Republicans. > The country, most of it anyway, got its first glimpse Friday of Sarah Heath Palin, John McCain's selection as his running mate, and the near-universal reaction was: Who? (link)

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