Harvard's Election 2008 Blog

It looks like Sarah Palin, the second-year Alaska governor, is John McCain's veep nominee.

Picking a pro-choice, pro-death penality, anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage, female governor from Alaska plays to several key constituancies for McCain.  It appeals to embittered Hillary supporters; women; oil interests; coal interests; auto interests; rust belters; religious/"value "voters;  and, perhaps peripherally, minorities.  If McCain can convince voters that the GOP isn't the party of old white men, he might be able to access some new voters.

And I don't now about you, but does this one-time Miss Alaska runner-up look faintly Latina, and have a faintly Latina last name?  We'll see how this plays out.

 Is this who you would trust to run the country if John McCain's age and cancer catches up with him?  I look forward to the reaction from the Obama camp.