alaska

In the opening pages of “Going Rogue,” Sarah Palin tells an anecdote about the Alaska State Fair that took me aback. Here’s the story:
Ahead, on my right, I saw the Alaska Right to Life (RTL) booth, where a poster caught my eye, taking my breath away. It featured the sweetest baby girl swathed in pink, [...]

Paul Bedard gets an early look at “The Persecution of Sarah Palin,” the second book by young Weekly Standard writer Matthew Continetti, which draws lessons about the media, feminism, and elitism from the former Alaska governor’s rapid rise and fall. In this excerpt, Continetti analyzes the meaning of Tina Fey’s iconic impersonation of Palin.
It was [...]

The final Hays Research Poll on former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) finds her popularity with Alaskans tumbling just into negative territory; 48 percent of voters view her favorably, 47 percent view her unfavorably. It’s a strikingly polarized survey, with a similar one-point gap between the people who view her “very unfavorably” and “very favorably”—31-30.
Before she [...]

Big day for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on the gun-control front. First she introduced a bill to prohibit foreign felons from buying firearms; now she’s pushing a proposal to end the practice of hunting from airplanes. Co-sponsored by Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), the bill aims to close a loophole in the ban against aerial hunting [...]

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said goodbye to her constituents Sunday afternoon and handed off the baton to Lieutenant Gov. Sean Parnell. Explaining her puzzling move, Palin cited her inability to get anything done as a lame duck — though her term would have ended in about a year and a half.
After a few jabs [...]

Suddenly, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s abrupt resignation announcement might make a bit more sense.
An independent investigator has found evidence that Gov. Sarah Palin may have violated ethics laws by accepting private donations to pay her legal debts.
The report obtained by The Associated Press says Palin is securing unwarranted benefits and receiving improper gifts through the [...]

She’d have to move to Anchorage, of course, but is it too soon to talk about State Sen. Sylvia Allen (R-Ariz.) as a possible governor of Alaska?

This, from Roger Simon, is the kind of political commentary that shoots for “outside the beltway” and just becomes patronizing. Mocking the media coverage of Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska):
Listen to how “rambling” and “disjointed” she is. Once upon a time in American politics, this was known as being “plain-spoken,” but that time has gone.
OK. From [...]

In five minutes, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska.) announced she would skip the 2010 gubernatorial race, resign her own office at the end of July (her term is up December 2010), and, according to the pundit class, effectively take herself out of the 2012 election.
On Fox News, Bill Kristol said that “the more he thought about [...]

Well, not quite anymore. A new Hays Research poll from Alaska has Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R) popularity falling precipitously from the mid-80s to only 54 percent, with 42 percent of Alaskans saying they have a “negative” view of her.
Some popularity drop-off isn’t uncommon right now, as states battle with their budgets, but Palin has really [...]