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From the just for fun/chart candy category, check out the amazing Sarah Palin’s recent doubling of “The One”  and all the others.  Check out her “bump” vs Joe Biden’s, it’s easily quadruple his volume.

She even doubled them all for all time search traffic!

Now yes, this is probably largely due to the fact that she was relatively unknown and yes, it probably doesn’t mean a whole lot in terms of how many supporters she may have gained but, it certainly shows that a TON of people are introducing themselves to Sarah Palin, something I believe is a good thing.

The Democrats are literally scared of a strong, female Republican Vice President.  How do they respond?  Send in the wolves…  HT: Americans for Limited Government

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Sarah Palin is a fine pick for VP. She is great on the issues closest to my heart - strongly pro-life and pro-marriage. Early indications are that she’s very good on judges. Her fifth child, Trig, was born in April - he was diagnosed with Down Syndrome in the womb - they took the pregnancy to term and she proclaimed him “perfect” upon birth. She has received universal praise from conservative Christian and evangelical leaders and interest groups.

Politically, she’s a calculated risk. I’m not worried about any Dan Quayle-style stuff coming out of her background. Obviously she’s not very experienced in terms of time in office - less than 2 years as Gov of Alaska, and before that mayor of a town of 5000. So it will tough to attack Obama as inexperienced - although 2 years running a state is much more valuable than 4 years as a US Senator, 3 of which were spent running for president. Moreover, in that time he has done nothing, whereas her time as governor and before that as mayor and ethics commissioner show a real record of leadership and reform. I assume the McCain Camp is thinking, Hillary staked her all on saying Obama was too inexperienced to be President, and voters still chose him. So McCain needed a “game-changer” who could reinforce a reform message (and Drill Drill Drill!).

Obviously Palin is meant to reach out to the Hillary voters and women while at the same time energizing the base and reinforcing a reform message. She’ll help with Hillary voters some, but not the same as a Kay Bailey Hutchinson or Meg Whitman. She will absolutely energize the base - reading my friends’ facebook statuses, it’s all excitement. I’m skeptical that McCain can out “reform” Obama, Mr. Change personified. I suppose the “reform” mantra is meant to offer a two-fer: with McCain, you get experience to keep us safe AND the reform we need.

Finally, I think she and her husband will provide a good story and be good communicators. She’s pretty, she hunts and fishes and likes moose burgers. He’s a champion snowmobile racer. “NASCAR dads” will eat that up. She drives a jetta to work and is a self-described “hockey mom.” She used to be a TV sports journalist, so she’s comfortable with the camera. She beat a sitting Republican governor in the primary and a former Democrat governor in the general in ‘06 to become governor, so clearly she’s a good campaigner. Looking at the electoral map, hopefully she can make a particular impact in Colorado as a fellow Westerner.

So on the whole, I’m quite pleased. They held the leak until an hour before the event, the event was packed, McCain was smiling, they stole the news cycle from Obama’s acceptance speech. Now we just have to hope that Hurricane Gustav does not through the GOP convention’s schedule down the drain and we’ll be okay … This race doesn’t really start until Sept. 10 - that’s the first poll I’ll take seriously.