http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/525510.html (see photo link)
I want Sarah Palin to go back to Alaska. Although it appears (see link above & photos (link above) it is questionable if some Alaskans want her back at all. The magnitude of today's politics is much to large for her. She is most certainly out of her league. I think it's egoistic of her to think she is capable of what's ahead in our country and the world. Sigmund Freud once said "Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.??? Though she's not a child it definately relates to Sarah Palin. She seems like a nice enough lady, and even though I disagree with her on many issues, she isn't educated enough to command our country. She really isn't. She's a small town girl. I'm a small town girl, too, and wish I still lived in a small town. But the experience she does have won't be enough and it's quite scary to visualize her actually sitting in the White House or possibly becoming Commander in Chief. Her smile and charisma and small state experience will NOT be enough.
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Unmarried women voters tend to go 60-40 for Democrats in national elections and married voters historically end up evenly split, so Palin's ability to peel off votes in either category is important to Republican nominee John McCain's chances. "The major storyline in this election is that the Hillary-Obama drama and nomination for Sarah Palin is the fight for women's voters," said Anna Greenberg, co-owner of Greenberg, Quinlan Rosner Research.
The focus group's results were inconclusive. Palin's favorability rating rose an average of 10 points among these women versus their pre-speech views, but none of the participants said that their vote had been changed or secured.
For the most part, the groups—a dozen unmarried and a dozen married women in separate rooms based on marital status—showed little visual reaction during the speech itself. They watched stone-faced as they jotted down thoughts while Palin spoke, breaking into laughter only once over the antics of one of her children. Some squirmed a bit when the Alaska governor took her hardest shots at Barack Obama.
Maxine Gratz, 57, an Obama-leaning Republican, for instance, said of Palin's mockery of the Hollywood-like set erected for Obama's acceptance speech in Denver: "When she was saying that about the Styrofoam columns behind him, there was no need for that. That really upset me."
The participants uniformly praised Palin's style and charisma—"she seems like a common type of woman who brought herself up," said Republican-leaning 53-year-old Debbie Zampino—and gave her high marks for dispensing with the jet and chef she was due as Alaska governor. "I think she's got the Hillary Clinton kind of drive," said 54-year-old undecided independent, Dawn Liberti.
Yet most also complained Palin had omitted a topic of concern to them.
"I kept thinking, 'Will she mention going green?' but she didn't," said undecided Republican Janet McCreary, 43. "She didn't say anything about education," Stacey McGreehin, an undecided Republican-leaning independent griped. One reason the voting patterns of unmarried women are different than married women, Greenberg explained, is that unmarried women are more economically vulnerable than women in two-income households. And, indeed, there was more concern in the unmarried focus groups that Palin offered little to salve the ailing economy. Melanie Haack, 32, an undecided unmarried Democrat, was waiting for some words on child care and health care—issues of great concern to working mothers. "How's she going to help us?" Haack asked.
The group also reflected their regional bias: Palin's call for more nuclear power plants led participants to voice concerns about where the nuclear waste would be stored. The federal government has been trying for years to build a repository 100 miles outside of Las Vegas at Yucca Mountain. And undecided Republican Judy Wilson, 40, was among those defensive on behalf of Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid when Palin took a shot at the Nevada senator. "She twists the words of other politicians such as Harry Reid," Wilson wrote in her notes during the speech.
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