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Are you familiar with the concept of opportunity cost? By devoting so much obsessive attention and editorial space to Palin, you are tacitly suggesting that she's the most important issue of the race. (As opposed to say, the economy, health care, etc. etc. etc.) Because Salon is an avowedly partisan outlet ("the Fox News of the left", as you and Gary like to say), you are implying that liberal Obama supporters have nothing better to talk about than anti-Palin diatribes which only appeal to the converted. That's the kind of logic which loses elections.
Yes, stories about Palin garner Salon huge page views. Besides that, what's the possible editorial justification for so much focus on her, as opposed to all the myriad issues you claim to care about?
