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McCain Barely Knows Running Mate
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
... Dan Gerstein sums up McCain's gamble: "He's betting his presidency on a naked political play for holdout Hillary supporters and other female swing voters - and hoping that a large share of these predominantly pro-choice women will ignore or overlook Palin's staunch pro-life, anti-stem cell views." ...
The Daily Bric-A-Brac: Sarah!
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
So Bill Burton is spending a day under the bus... although I gather that, down the road, the campaign will be grateful for its "hair-trigger" reaction. Barack Obama is a bigger cultural phenomenon than American Idol, the Beijing Olympics, and the Oscars. McCain first met Palin in February of 2008, according to an official tick-tock e-mailed to reporters. I've posted it after the jump. Dan Gerstein, a former adviser to Sen. Joe Lieberman, in the New York Daily News: "In picking an unknown, untested, half-a-term woman ...
Remainders: Palin-drome!
Ben Smith's Blog —
... on air in North Carolina and Virginia.
Palin's record on the Bridge to Nowhere doesn't exactly reflect today's comments.
She did go to Landstuhl.
An Alaska blogger isn't a fan.
Comes now the oppo, in the form of a local TV report on Palin's trooper scandal, in which a former aide calls her a liar. (The cover-up seems substantially more embarrassing than the crime here.)
Lisa Murkowski is notably unsupportive.
Dan Gerstein calls it a dangerous gamble.
The Gambler
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... "In picking an unknown, untested, half-a-term woman governor from Alaska to be his running mate, John McCain is following in a long line of reckless men who have rolled the dice for a beauty queen. Except in this case, McCain is taking one of the biggest, boldest gambles in modern American political history," - Dan Gerstein, a former adviser to Sen. Joe Lieberman. ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
