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I've lived in Anchorage almost all my adult life - since 1967, to be exact.
Sarah Palin has succeeded because people underestimated her - not a problem this year - and because she appeals to the fantasies of the great unwashed (if that doesn't get me banned I don't know what will)
Sarah Palin appeals to those who object to freedom of choice more than anything else (anecdotal evidence: my 1960 high school e-mail group - it was a small, red state town) Once they learn that she is anti-choice her lying, cheating - all that - doesn't matter - she is anti-choice, and that is ALL that counts
IT DOESN'T MATTER that everything Talbot and others say is true - she is against abortion, and that's it - school is out - everything else like budget deficits, foreign policy, ANYTHING - doesn't matter. Of my high school classmates - which represents the fair average (I would guess) in the red states - they all stop listening once they learn that Palin (who is NOT the presidential candidate, but they don't know/care/understand that her power as VP depends on the mental vacancy of the president) is anti-choice
We have lost, good people.
