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Baffling.
Daily Kos — Jonathan Alter: "What is it exactly that the vice president does all day?" Palin offhandedly asked CNBC anchor Larry Kudlow in July. Kudlow explained that the job has become more important in recent years. Palin knows the energy crisis well, even if her claim on "Charlie Rose" that Alaska's untapped resources can significantly ease it is unsupported by the facts. But what does she know about Iranian nukes, health care or the future of entitlement programs? And that's just a few of the 20 or so national issues on which she will be expected to show basic ...

First gov-as-veep since '68
Jonathan Martin's Blog — A great fact from Jonathan Alter: The last governor chosen for vice president was Spiro Agnew in 1968, and he was the governor of Maryland, which is right over the line from Washington, D.C., not thousands of miles away.  

Sarah Palin: pro and con
Top of the Ticket — ... From the left comes the alternative take by Newsweek's Jonathan Alter, and the headline and subhead for his piece makes his view clear:  "McCain’s ‘Hail Sarah’ Pass ... His choice for veep is all but set up for failure in the fall." ...