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Sarah Palin Fails Focus Group (video)
youtube.com - 9/1/2008
Sarah Palin Fails Focus Group (video)
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Undecided Minnesota voters reject Sarah Palin

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Oliver Willis:  Video: Sarah Palin Fails Focus Group

DownWithTyranny!:  Thomas Eagleton Watch: How Long Will McCain Hold Onto This Terrible Pick??

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Video: Sarah Palin Fails Focus Group
Oliver Willis — Frank Luntz (I know) ran a focus group of swing voters in Minnesota and asked them about Sarah Palin. She did not poll well.

Thomas Eagleton Watch: How Long Will McCain Hold Onto This Terrible Pick??
DownWithTyranny! — Ari Berman is a pretty smart guy-- and not taken to buying into wildfire tabloid type rumors. In today's Nation he's wondering if Sarah Palin might be John McCain's Tom Eagleton, another VP candidate who wasn't vetted properly... and had to resign after being nominated. Or, worse yet, Bernie Kerik! I wonder if the lobbyists who run McCain's campaign for him knew that she wanted Alaska to secede from the union; that seems like a strange postion for a vice-president, no? By I guess that's what you have to expect from someone who blatantly lied in her very first speech to America about a position that everyone in Alaska ...

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