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<blockquote>But as for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day? I’m used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration. We want to make sure that that VP slot would be a fruitful type of position, especially for Alaskans and for the things that we’re trying to accomplish up here for the rest of the U.S., before I can even start addressing that question.</blockquote>
<blockquote>But as for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day? I’m used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration. We want to make sure that that VP slot would be a fruitful type of position, especially for Alaskans and for the things that we’re trying to accomplish up here for the rest of the U.S., before I can even start addressing that question.</blockquote>


Palin is considered to have similar policy positions to John McCain in some respects. One exception is drilling for oil in the [[Arctic National Wildlife Refuge]] (ANWR), which Palin strongly supports and McCain has opposed.<ref>Keith Johnson. "[http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/08/29/palin-drone-mccains-vp-pick-even-more-bullish-on-drilling/ Palin Drone: McCain’s VP Pick Even More Bullish on Drilling]", Environmental Capital, ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'', August 29, 2008. Retrieved August 29, 2008.</ref> Another exception is her belief that global warming is not manmade.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/sarah_palin_vp/2008/08/29/126139.html |title=Palin Speaks to Newsmax About McCain, Abortion, Climate Change |publisher=newsmax.com |date= |accessdate=2008-08-30}}</ref> On August 4, 2008, Palin put out a press release praising portions of [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] presidential nominee [[Barack Obama]]'s energy plan including the call for completion of the [[Alaska Gas Pipeline]] and proposal of $1,000 rebates for families struggling with energy costs, although she took exception with its call for a windfall profits tax on oil companies. The press release in question appears to have been removed from the governor's website, but can still be accessed through Google's cache.<ref name="energy cmt">{{cite news | first = Sam | last = Stein | url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/05/alaska-gov-and-longshot-m_n_116974.html | title = Alaska Gov. And Longshot McCain VP Praises Obama's Energy Plan | work = [[The Huffington Post]] | date = August 5, 2008 | accessdate = 2008-08-29}}</ref><ref name="quinn"/><ref name="Barnes"/><ref>{{citeweb|url=http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:wbCGTUeD1r0J:www.gov.state.ak.us/news.php%3Fid%3D1384+http://www.gov.state.ak.us/news.php%3Fid%3D1384&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a|title=Palin Pleased with Obama's Energy Plan|publisher=State of Alaska|accessdate=2008-08-30}}</ref>
Palin is considered to have similar policy positions to John McCain in some respects. One exception is drilling for oil in the [[Arctic National Wildlife Refuge]] (ANWR), which Palin strongly supports and McCain has opposed.<ref>Keith Johnson. "[http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/08/29/palin-drone-mccains-vp-pick-even-more-bullish-on-drilling/ Palin Drone: McCain’s VP Pick Even More Bullish on Drilling]", Environmental Capital, ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'', August 29, 2008. Retrieved August 29, 2008.</ref> Another exception is her belief that global warming is not manmade.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/sarah_palin_vp/2008/08/29/126139.html |title=Palin Speaks to Newsmax About McCain, Abortion, Climate Change |publisher=newsmax.com |date= |accessdate=2008-08-30}}</ref> On August 4, 2008, Palin put out a press release praising portions of [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] presidential nominee [[Barack Obama]]'s energy plan including the call for completion of the [[Alaska Gas Pipeline]] and proposed $1,000 rebates for families struggling with energy costs, although she took exception with its call for a windfall profits tax on oil companies. The press release in question appears to have been removed from the governor's website, but can still be accessed through Google's cache.<ref name="energy cmt">{{cite news | first = Sam | last = Stein | url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/05/alaska-gov-and-longshot-m_n_116974.html | title = Alaska Gov. And Longshot McCain VP Praises Obama's Energy Plan | work = [[The Huffington Post]] | date = August 5, 2008 | accessdate = 2008-08-29}}</ref><ref name="quinn"/><ref name="Barnes"/><ref>{{citeweb|url=http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:wbCGTUeD1r0J:www.gov.state.ak.us/news.php%3Fid%3D1384+http://www.gov.state.ak.us/news.php%3Fid%3D1384&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a|title=Palin Pleased with Obama's Energy Plan|publisher=State of Alaska|accessdate=2008-08-30}}</ref>


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==Controvery Regarding Trig's Parentage==

Upon receiving the national notoriety associated with her nomination for Vice President of the US, Governor Palin's recent history came under close scrutiny. Images of the Sarah Palin and her family from the Winter of 2007-2008 suggest that Ms. Palin's daughter Bristol is the mother of the family's newborn boy, Trig.<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://www.adn.com/politics/v-gallery/story/339576.html?/politics/v-enlarge/story/339576-a339575-t3.html|title=Sarah Palin on Super Tuesday; February 5, 2008 - 1 month prior to Trig's birth|accessdate = 2008-08-30}}</ref><ref>{{citeweb|url=http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/v-gallery/story/339587.html?/news/alaska/v-enlarge/story/339587-a339583-t3.html|title=Winter 2007 image of the Palin family|accessdate = 2008-08-30}}</ref> Governor Palin also reportedly kept news of her pregnancy confidential until the eighth month and Bristol spent the last four months before Trig's birth at home due to mononucleosis.<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-69834|title=Alaskan Governor's child may be her daughter's?|accessdate = 2008-08-30}}</ref> Additionally, Ms. Palin apparently delivered the keynote address at the Republican Governor’s Energy Conference in Texas after Trig's water broke and flew home to Alaska without revealing her medical status before driving with her husband to the hospital where her new child Trig was delivered.<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://www.newsminer.com/news/2008/apr/22/palins-flight-labor-falls-under-scrutiny/|title=Palin says she felt safe flying to Alaska to have baby|accessdate = 2008-08-30}}</ref>


==Electoral history==
==Electoral history==

Revision as of 22:23, 30 August 2008

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Sarah Palin
11th Governor of Alaska
Incumbent
Assumed office
December 4, 2006
LieutenantSean Parnell
Preceded byFrank Murkowski
Chairperson, Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
In office
2003–2004
Preceded byCamille Oechsli Taylor
Succeeded byJohn K. Norman
Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska
In office
1996–2002
Preceded byJohn Stein
Succeeded byDianne M. Keller
City Council Member, Wasilla, Alaska
In office
1992–1996
Personal details
Born (1964-02-11) February 11, 1964 (age 60)
Sandpoint, Idaho, United States
Political partyRepublican
SpouseTodd Palin (since 1988)
ChildrenTrack, Bristol, Willow, Piper, Trig
ResidenceWasilla, Alaska
Alma materUniversity of Idaho
ProfessionPolitician
Signature
Location of Wasilla, Alaska

Sarah Louise Heath Palin (pronunciation:pay'-lynn, /ˈpeɪlɨn/; born February 11, 1964) is the current governor of the U.S. state of Alaska and the presumptive Republican vice presidential nominee for the 2008 United States presidential election.

Palin was elected governor and assumed office in December 2006, after defeating incumbent governor Frank Murkowski in the Republican primary and former Democratic governor Tony Knowles in the general election. She was the youngest person, and the first woman, to be elected governor of Alaska. Before becoming governor, Palin served two terms on the Wasilla, Alaska, city council from 1992 to 1996, and was elected mayor of Wasilla in 1996 and 1999. She lost her race for lieutenant governor of Alaska in 2002. Palin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism from the University of Idaho.

On August 29, 2008, Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced he had chosen Palin as his running mate, making her the second female vice presidential candidate representing a major political party after Geraldine Ferraro.

Early life and education

Palin was born Sarah Louise Heath in Sandpoint, Idaho, the daughter of Sarah Heath (née Sheeran), a school secretary, and Charles R. Heath, a science teacher and track coach.[2][3] She has English, Irish, and German ancestry.[2] Her family moved to Alaska when she was an infant.[3] She and her father would sometimes wake at 3 a.m. to hunt moose before school, and the family regularly ran 5K and 10K races.[3]

Palin attended Wasilla High School in Wasilla, Alaska, where she was the head of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter at the school[3] and the point guard and captain of the school's basketball team. She helped the team win the Alaska small-school basketball championship in 1982, hitting a critical free throw in the last seconds of the game, despite having an ankle stress fracture at the time.[3] She earned the nickname "Sarah Barracuda" because of her intense play[3] and was the leader of team prayer before games.[3]

In 1984, Palin won the Miss Wasilla beauty contest, then finished second in the Miss Alaska pageant,[4] at which she won a college scholarship.[3] In the Wasilla pageant, she played the flute and won "Miss Congeniality."[5][6]

Palin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in communications-journalism from the University of Idaho, where she also minored in political science.[7][8] Palin briefly worked in broadcasting as a sports reporter for local Anchorage television stations and with her husband in commercial fishing.[3]

Pre-gubernatorial political experience

City council and mayorship

Palin began her political career in 1992, running for Wasilla city council as a supporter of the controversial new sales tax and with an advertisement advocating "a safer, more progressive Wasilla".[9] She won and served two terms on the council from 1992 to 1996. In 1996, she challenged and defeated incumbent mayor John Stein, criticizing wasteful spending and high taxes.[3] In January 1997, Palin fired the Wasilla police chief and library director. In response, a group of 60 residents calling themselves Concerned Citizens for Wasilla discussed attempting a recall campaign against Palin, but then decided against it.[10] The fired police chief later sued Palin on the grounds that he was fired because he supported the campaign of Palin's opponent, but his suit was eventually dismissed when the judge ruled that Palin had the right under state law to fire city employees, even for political reasons.[11] Palin followed through on her campaign promises to reduce her own salary, and to reduce property taxes by 40 percent.[3] She also increased the city sales tax to pay for construction of an indoor ice rink and sports complex.[12] At this time, state Republican leaders began grooming her for higher office.[13] She ran for re-election against Stein in 1999, winning by an even larger margin.[3][14] Palin was also elected president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors.[15]

While mayor of Wasilla, Palin wore a "Buchanan for President" button during conservative Pat Buchanan's 1996 visit to Wasilla; Palin has stated that she "welcome[s] all the candidates in Wasilla" and disagreed with the perception that she was endorsing Buchanan.[16] Buchanan described Palin as a "supporter" in an interview after she was selected as the vice presidential nominee by McCain.[16][17]

2002 election

In 2002, Palin made an unsuccessful bid for lieutenant governor, coming in second to Loren Leman in a five-way race in the Republican primary. After Frank Murkowski resigned from his long-held U.S. Senate seat in mid-term to become governor, he considered appointing Palin to his Senate seat but instead chose his daughter, Alaska state representative Lisa Murkowski.[18]

Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission

Governor Murkowski appointed Palin Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission,[19] where she served from 2003 to 2004 until resigning in protest over what she called the "lack of ethics" of fellow Alaskan Republican leaders, who ignored her whistleblowing complaints of legal violations and conflicts of interest.[20][3] After she resigned, she exposed the state Republican Party's chairman, Randy Ruedrich, one of her fellow Oil & Gas commissioners, who was accused of doing work for the party on public time, and supplying a lobbyist with a sensitive e-mail.[21] Palin filed formal complaints against both Ruedrich and former Alaska Attorney General Gregg Renkes, who both resigned; Ruedrich paid a record $12,000 fine.[3]

Governorship

File:Donyounggovpalin.jpg
Palin with U.S. Representative Don Young of Alaska.

Running on a clean-government campaign in 2006, Palin upset then-Governor Murkowski in the Republican gubernatorial primary.[3] In August, she declared that education, public safety, and transportation would be three cornerstones of her administration.[22] Despite being outspent by her Democratic opponent, she won the gubernatorial election in November, defeating former Governor Tony Knowles 48.3% to 40.9%.[3]

Palin became Alaska's first woman governor and, at 42, the youngest in Alaskan history. Palin was also the first Alaskan governor born after Alaska achieved U.S. statehood and the first not to be inaugurated in Juneau, instead choosing to hold her inauguration ceremony in Fairbanks. She took office on December 4, 2006.

She has challenged the state's Republican leaders, helping to launch a campaign by Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell to unseat U.S. Congressman Don Young[23] and publicly challenging Senator Ted Stevens to come clean about the federal investigation into his financial dealings.[24]

Palin frequently had an approval rating above 90% in 2007.[25] A poll published by Hays Research on July 28, 2008 showed Palin's approval rating at 80%,[26] while another Ivan Moore poll showed it at 76%, a drop which the pollsters attributed to the controversial firing of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.[27]

A subsequent Rasmussen Reports poll from July 31, 2008 showed 35% of Alaskans rated her performance as excellent, 29% good, 22% fair, and 14% poor.[28]

Energy and environment

Palin at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, July 2007

Palin has strongly promoted oil and natural gas resource development in Alaska,[29] despite concerns from environmentalists. She also helped pass a tax increase on oil company profits.[24][25] Palin has announced plans to create a new sub-cabinet group of advisers to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions within Alaska.[30]

Shortly after taking office, Palin rescinded 35 appointments made by Murkowski in the last hours of his administration, including that of his former chief of staff James "Jim" Clark to the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority.[31][32] Clark later pleaded guilty to conspiring with a defunct oil-field-services company to channel money into Frank Murkowski's re-election campaign.[33]

In March 2007, Palin presented the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA) as the new legal vehicle for building a natural gas pipeline from the state's North Slope.[34] This negated a deal by the previous governor to grant the contract to a coalition including BP (her husband's former employer). Only one legislator, Representative Ralph Samuels, voted against the measure,[35] and in June, Palin signed it into law.[36][37] On January 5, 2008, Palin announced that a Canadian company, TransCanada Corp., was the sole AGIA-compliant applicant.[38][39] In August 2008, Palin signed a bill into law giving the state of Alaska authority to award TransCanada Pipelines a license to build and operate the $26-billion pipeline to transport natural gas from the North Slope to the Lower 48 through Canada.[40]

In response to high oil and gas prices, and the resulting state government budget surplus, Palin proposed giving Alaskans $100-a-month energy debit cards. She also proposed providing grants to electrical utilities so that they would reduce customers' rates.[41] She subsequently dropped the debit card proposal, and in its place she proposed to send Alaskans $1,200 directly, paid for from the windfall surplus the state is getting because of the high oil prices.[42]

In May 2008, Palin objected to the decision of Dirk Kempthorne, the Republican United States Secretary of the Interior, to list polar bears as an endangered species. She filed a lawsuit to stop the listing amid fears that it would hurt oil and gas development in the bears' habitat off Alaska's northern and northwestern coasts. She said the move to list the bears was premature and was not the appropriate management tool for their welfare.[43]

She believes that "a changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state" but she would not "attribute it to being man-made"[44] after she was announced as Senator McCain's presumptive running mate.

Budget

Palin with Lt. Governor Sean Parnell

Shortly after becoming governor, Palin canceled a contract for the construction of an 11-mile (18-kilometer) gravel road outside Juneau to a mine. This reversed a decision made in the closing days of the Murkowski Administration.[45]

In June 2007, Palin signed into law a $6.6 billion operating budget—the largest in Alaska's history.[46] At the same time, she used her veto power to make the second-largest cuts of the construction budget in state history. The $237 million in cuts represented over 300 local projects, and reduced the construction budget to nearly $1.6 billion.[47]

Palin initially expressed support for the Gravina Island Bridge project,[48] commonly known outside the state as the "Bridge to Nowhere." However, once it had become a nationwide symbol of wasteful earmark spending and some federal funding was lost, Palin cancelled the bridge because Alaska's congressional delegation was unable to prevent the state of Alaska from having to pay for part of the bridge's construction.[24][49] Alaska still kept the federal money, but she stated that Alaska should rely less on federal funding.[49][25]

When on June 6, 2007, the Alaska Creamery Board recommended closing Matanuska Maid Dairy, an unprofitable state-owned business, Palin objected, citing concern for the impact on dairy farmers and the fact that the dairy had just received $600,000 in state money. When Palin found out that the Board of Agriculture and Conservation appoints Creamery Board members, she replaced the entire membership of the Board of Agriculture and Conservation.[25][50] The new board reversed the decision to close the dairy, but later in 2007, with Palin's support, the unprofitable business was put up for sale. There were no offers in December 2007, when the minimum bid was set at $3.35 million,[51][52] and the dairy was closed that month. In August 2008, the Anchorage plant was purchased for $1.5 million, the new minimum bid; the purchaser plans to convert it into heated storage units.[53]

Public Safety Commissioner dismissal

Main article: Alaska Public Safety Commissioner dismissal

On July 11, 2008, Palin dismissed Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan for not adequately filling state trooper vacancies, and because he "did not turn out to be a team player on budgeting issues."[54] She instead offered him a position as executive director of the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, which he turned down.[55][56]

Her power to fire him is not in dispute, but Monegan alleged that his dismissal was a retaliation for his reluctance to fire Palin's former brother-in-law, Alaska State Trooper Mike Wooten, who had been involved in a divorce and child custody battle with Palin's sister, Molly McCann.[57] Palin is currently being investigated by an independent investigator hired by the Alaska Legislature[58] to determine whether she abused her power when she fired Monegan. The investigation is scheduled to end October 30, only days before the November 4 presidential election.[59]

2008 vice-presidential campaign

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2008 Republican Party Ticket
File:McCainPalin.png
CampaignUS presidential–
vice-presidential
election, 2008
CandidateJohn Sidney McCain
(presidential)
Arizona Senator
1987-incumbent
Sarah Louise Heath Palin
(vice-presidential)
Governor of Alaska
2006–incumbent
AffiliationRepublican Party
StatusVP presumptive nominee
August 29, 2008
HeadquartersArlington, Virginia
Website
www.johnmccain.com
Main article: John McCain presidential campaign, 2008
See also: Republican Party (United States) vice presidential candidates, 2008

On August 29, 2008, Palin was announced as presumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain's vice-presidential candidate, or running mate.[60][61][62][63] Palin's selection surprised many Republican officials, several of whom had speculated about other candidates[64][65] such as Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, United States Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, and former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge.[66] According to ABC News, McCain was originally thinking of selecting Lieberman, and added Palin as a front runner only recently - starting the final vetting process a few days before the final selection was announced.[67]

A month previously, Palin had said:[68]

But as for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day? I’m used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration. We want to make sure that that VP slot would be a fruitful type of position, especially for Alaskans and for the things that we’re trying to accomplish up here for the rest of the U.S., before I can even start addressing that question.

Palin is considered to have similar policy positions to John McCain in some respects. One exception is drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), which Palin strongly supports and McCain has opposed.[69] Another exception is her belief that global warming is not manmade.[70] On August 4, 2008, Palin put out a press release praising portions of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's energy plan including the call for completion of the Alaska Gas Pipeline and proposed $1,000 rebates for families struggling with energy costs, although she took exception with its call for a windfall profits tax on oil companies. The press release in question appears to have been removed from the governor's website, but can still be accessed through Google's cache.[71][24][25][72]

Reaction

Alaska Republicans had mixed reactions to the news of Palin's selection. State Senate President Lyda Green, a Republican who has often feuded with Palin, remarked, "She's not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president?" On the other hand, Alaskan Attorney General Talis Colberg, a Palin appointee, remarked that, "It's wonderful. It was an emotional thing to see the governor walk out with her family and I say, wow, I work for her."[73]

Republicans from other states expressed strong support for Palin's selection, including support from fellow woman Governor M. Jodi Rell of Connecticut, who said of Palin "She is strong. She is capable. She is articulate" and suggested opponents should not underestimate her.[74] There was speculation back in October 2007 that Palin was seen as a possible choice of the vice-presidency of John McCain's rival of the 2008 Republican presidential candidate, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.[75]

Palin is the second U.S. woman to run on a major party ticket, after Geraldine Ferraro, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee of former vice-president Walter Mondale in 1984.[63] On August 30th, 2008, NPR[76] and other news sources reported that thirty mostly favorable changes were made to Palin's Wikipedia biography, one day before her official nomination, leading to suggestions that either she or her supporters had "scrubbed" her entry.

According to Politico, constitutional scholars were 'stunned' by her pick, saying that she was the least experienced and credentialed candidate to join a major-party ticket in modern history. The last vice presidential candidate with less experience was John W. Kern, the Democratic VP candidate in 1908. [77]

Political positions

Main article: Political positions of Sarah Palin

Palin is pro-life, pro-contraception, and a prominent member of Feminists for Life[78][22]. She opposes the use of abortion even in cases of rape or incest [79] and supports the death penalty.[80] In 2002, while running for lieutenant governor, Palin called herself as "pro-life as any candidate can be."[22] Palin has said she has good friends who are gay,[22] but opposes same-sex marriage.[22] She supported a non-binding referendum for a constitutional amendment to deny benefits to gay couples.[81] Palin has stated that she supported the 1998 constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.[22] According to The Anchorage Daily News, she has supported allowing discussion of the debate between creationism and evolution in public schools, if students bring it up, and not necessarily as part of the curriculum.[82] She has admitted that she tried marijuana, but she does not support legalization for recreational use, stating concerns about the message it would send to her children.[22]

Palin is a life member of the National Rifle Association, and is popular among gun rights activists. She is a strong proponent of the Second Amendment, and supports gun safety education for youth.[83]

According to Time, Palin's foreign policy positions were not clear at the time she was picked, but she has been critical of the lack of a long-term strategy on the war in Iraq.[84]

Personal life and family

Palin family members at the announcement of Palin's vice presidential candidacy. From left: Todd, Piper, Willow, Bristol, Trig.

She married Todd Palin, her boyfriend since high school, on August 29, 1988.[3] Todd Palin[85] works for the oil company BP in a non-managerial position[86] and works as a fisherman in his hometown in the summers. He is a world champion snowmobiler, winning the 2,000-mile (3,200 km) "Iron Dog" race four times.[3] The two eloped shortly after Palin graduated from college.[3] Neither her husband nor her son Track are registered Republicans, and neither have ever registered with a political party;[87] over half of Alaskans are registered as nonpartisan or undeclared.[88] The Palin family lives in Wasilla, about 45 miles (72 km) north of Anchorage.

Palin has two sons (Track, 19; and Trig, four months) and three daughters (Bristol, 17; Willow, 14; and Piper, 7) [Ages as of August 2008].[89] She gave birth to Trig on April 18, 2008, while in office as governor, and returned to the office three days afterward.[90][24] The baby, as prenatal genetic testing had shown, has Down syndrome;[91] Palin's decision to have the baby was applauded by the pro-life community.[92][93] Track is in an infantry brigade in the U.S. Army, and Palin has said he will be deployed to Iraq on September 11, 2008.[94][95]

Palin hunts, ice fishes, eats mooseburgers, rides snowmobiles, has run a marathon, and owns a float plane.[25][96]

Controvery Regarding Trig's Parentage

Upon receiving the national notoriety associated with her nomination for Vice President of the US, Governor Palin's recent history came under close scrutiny. Images of the Sarah Palin and her family from the Winter of 2007-2008 suggest that Ms. Palin's daughter Bristol is the mother of the family's newborn boy, Trig.[97][98] Governor Palin also reportedly kept news of her pregnancy confidential until the eighth month and Bristol spent the last four months before Trig's birth at home due to mononucleosis.[99] Additionally, Ms. Palin apparently delivered the keynote address at the Republican Governor’s Energy Conference in Texas after Trig's water broke and flew home to Alaska without revealing her medical status before driving with her husband to the hospital where her new child Trig was delivered.[100]

Electoral history

Election results

2006 Gubernatorial Election, Alaska
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Sarah Palin 114,697 48.33 −7.6
Democratic Tony Knowles 97,238 40.97 +0.3
Independent Andrew Halcro 22,443 9.46 n/a
Independence Don Wright 1,285 0.54 −0.4
Libertarian Billy Toien 682 0.29 −0.2
Green David Massie 593 0.25 −1.0
Write-ins 384 0.16 +0.1
Majority 17,459 7.36
Turnout 238,307 51.1
Republican hold Swing 4.0
Alaska Republican Gubernatorial Primary Election, 2006
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Sarah Palin 51,443 50.59 n/a
Republican John Binkley 30,349 29.84 n/a
Republican Frank Murkowski, Incumbent 19,412 19.09 n/a
Republican Gerald Heikes 280 0.28 n/a
Republican Merica Hlatcu 211 0.21 n/a
Majority 21,094 20.75 n/a
Turnout 101,695 n/a n/a
2002 race for Lieutenant Governor (primary)[101]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Loren Leman 21,076 29% n/a
Republican Sarah Palin 19,114 27% n/a
Republican Robin Taylor 16,053 22% n/a
Republican Gail Phillips 13,804 19% n/a
Republican Paul Wieler 1,777 2% n/a
1999 race for Mayor of Wasilla[102]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
n/a Sarah Palin 909 73% n/a
n/a John Stein 292 24% n/a
n/a Cliff Silvers 32 3% n/a

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