Palin will play great in small towns and with working class women. There are two potential negatives - working class white men will be turned off by her 'mouthiness'. They don't like women who are sarcastic and put you down. They will see her as the emasculating popular girl in high school who wanted nothing to do with them. And I don't think her tone, accurately described as shrill and sarcastic, will play well at all in the South, where politeness and manners are more important. McCain isn't big in the South to begin with. So this does give Obama an opening. Same with upper middle class neighborhoods. She sounds a bit like what she is, the hot cheerleader/in-group clique leader who got away with being petty and catty because she looked good and was popular.
Richard



Wonder what's the story behind Sarah's "attending 5 colleges in 6 years? And pretty undistinguished schools at that: Hawaii Pacific College (attended fall semester as a freshman), North Idaho College (2 semesters), University of Idaho (2 semesters), Matanuska-Susitna College in Alaska (1 semester), then back to University of Idaho (3 semesters and graduation).

Let's forget all the trivia, though, and start asking her some hard questions to find out things like what's her capacity for diplomacy? Can she negotiate or only demand and then fire people who don't do it her way? Does she have any grasp of the lessons of history? What are her ideas about the separation of church and state? Does she have a working knowledge of the Constitution?
Ralph