Published 8/31/2008
by Anita Kumar, N.C. Aizenman and John Wagner
at Wash Post Elections
When Washington area Republicans learned that Sen. John McCain had picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate Friday, the feeling was "literally like if the Redskins had just won the Super Bowl," said Jeff Frederick, chairman of Virginia's Republican Party, who was already in Minneapolis ...
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