The reviews of Sarah Palin’s big speech have been widely positive. I’m not deviating from that trend. I thought she did an incredible job. Content aside, she was personable, tough and not at all too small for the stage.
There is still a lot of campaigning left, but I think we can safely say: Palin is [...]

Courtesy of MSNBC.

I’ll have more tomorrow, but for now I’ll leave you with this one question: do you think this speech swayed any independent women?
Discuss.

So far the Republican talking points are basically, “The media is sexist and they’re engaging in partisan hit jobs.”
Yes, it’s now “partisan” to find out facts other than the talking points dolled out by the McCain camp.
Sure….
I suppose the media was racist and engaging in partisan hit jobs when they hammered Obama repeatedly over Jeremiah [...]

With leaners
Obama - 51%
McCain - 45%
Without leaners
Obama - 48%
McCain - 43%
Lots of activity the past couple days in the prez race, and since Obama’s numbers have started to inch up past the 50% mark, perhaps the news about Palin is making people nervous.
One note, this the first time in the Rasmussen poll that Obama has [...]

As more question marks emerge about Palin, I can’t help but think the answer to the titular question is “Barely.”
TPM points out what has been revealed about Palin just yesterday…
* The news that Palin once backed the Bridge to Nowhere went national.
* It emerged that Palin has links to the bizarro Alaska Independence Party, which [...]

Despite criticism from several quarters, the Sarah Palin pick is being received very well by core Republicans.
Palin, say conservative activists, has instantly changed how they feel about [John] McCain’s campaign and spurred them to go to work for the Republican ticket.
First, though, they’re expressing their newfound fondness for McCain with their checkbooks. Since tapping Palin, [...]

The more and more I think about McCain’s choice today, the more I can’t seem to make much sense of it. HUGE downside and virtually the only upside is the idea that disgruntled HRC fans will jump ship just because Palin is a woman. And that’s pretty presumptuous.
In any event, here’s what the Obama camp [...]

Earlier, I gave you my off-the-cuff, political junkie reaction to John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin for a running mate. It’s great political theater and will give us plenty to talk about. But was it wise? Here’s my sober analysis:
This was a surprisingly unserious pick. Palin has scant experience. She makes Barack Obama look like [...]

At VicePresidents.com, we first wrote about Sarah Palin back in December 2007 when we found that there was, in fact, ONE person actively campaigning for the Vice Presidency. Typically this move is a deal breaker for many politicians and is the unspoken rule: Don’t act like you want it.

My gut reaction to John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate?
I love it.
Oh, I have no idea if I’ll like Palin as a candidate. I know she is socially conservative, which isn’t my thing. And I know she’s a reformer, which is very much my thing. So I’ll give her [...]

If true, this potential to be a game changer given the unique and contentious nature of the Hillary/Obama primary contest.
CNBC reports
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a self-styled “hockey mom” who has only been governor for a little over a year, is GOP Presidential candidate John McCain’s choice for Vice President, CNBC has learned.
According to a Republican [...]

When you mix that Secret Service story with this latest news, a clearer picture begins to emerge.
Still no word on where Pawlenty will be tomorrow. Sources say he’s in Minnesota currently with no currently plans to go anywhere this weekend.
However, as Ambinder points out…
It would be weird, wouldn’t it, to force the losers in [...]

The Secret Service put Biden under their protection right before the news broke he was Obama’s veep, but this appears to be a different situation…
If security sweeps are the giveaway, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney may be on the brink of being selected as Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) vice presidential running mate.
According to sources with [...]

At least that’s the guess that Erick Erickson offers, and offers this as backup…
A source close to the campaign now confirms for me that it “more likely than not” is Pawlenty. He does, however, caution me that the campaign does not actually want to leak tonight lest the Obama camp get too much of a [...]

From Politico:
In a strong sign that John McCain has not selected Joe Lieberman to be his running mate, Republican members of Congress were told today by McCain’s campaign that the Arizona senator would tap a traditional number two, according to a GOP source. [...]
McCain has been mulling the prospect of tapping Lieberman, and the Democrat-turned-independent [...]

The following report from Politico runs counter to what I just posted about him appearing on Meet The Press…
Tim Pawlenty, who had been in Denver on behalf of the McCain campaign and GOP, has stopped doing media interviews and cleared his schedule. [...]
An RNC aide said they were instructed to suspend Pawlenty’s counter-programming activities. The [...]

Halperin shares the lineup for this Sunday’s political roundtables, and it obviously begs the question…is NBC making an educated guess about the possible Veep nominee?
Meet the Press: Pawlenty
Face the Nation: Giuliani, Lieberman, Jindal, Fiorina
Again, it’s intriguing that Lieberman will by on with 3 other people who were mentioned as Veeps, but never seriously considered, while [...]

Well, the Republican Veepstakes just took another interesting turn, as whispers that not only has Rove asked Lieberman not to run, but he has also been asked to provide more information to the McCain camp.
From Politico:
AP’s Liz Sidoti reported: “Inside GOP circles Thursday, speculation swirled around Lieberman. It was fueled by reports that McCain’s advisers [...]

Will it Romney? Pawlenty?? Or even…Lieberman???
My guess is it’ll be Romney, but here’s some good reasoning why it may not be the well-heeled former Governor…
Mr. Romney remained the most talked-about possibility on Wednesday among Republican Party officials and on cable television, not least because of the theory that he would help Mr. McCain win Michigan, [...]

Joe Biden left the Presidential Race on January 3rd, adamantly refusing to consider the #2 spot on any ticket. But by June, he had reconsidered, telling NBC’s Meet the Press, “If the presidential nominee thought I could help him win — am I going to say to the first African-American candidate about to make history [...]