Sarah Palin Passes on 2010 Senate Race

The always-remote prospect of Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) ousting her fellow Republican, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), has just been snuffed out. A Palin-Murkowski race made no sense whatsoever: a pitched battle that the governor was not a shoe-in to win, that wouldn’t have gotten as much coverage as, say, More…

Sarah Palin Works the News Cycle

Two weeks after sending the Special Olympics a video message about her son Trig, who was born with Down Syndrome, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) has attacked President Obama for the joke he made last night about his low bowling scores on “Late Night with Jay Leno.”

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Palin Agonistes

Bad day for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. First, she pulls out of the Conservative Political Action Conference.

“We’re obviously disappointed,” said a CPAC official. A spokesman for the three-day confab, organized by the American Conservative Union Foundation and others, said that Palin, the popular former vice presidential nominee,

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There’s No Crying in Baseball

I hadn’t watched John Ziegler’s interview with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin about the mean mainstream media because one of the fringe benefits of the Obama-Biden victory was the right to not listen to Sarah Palin. Watching it now, though, is jarring.

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A Threat to Hockey Moms Everywhere

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who hasn’t been “America’s most popular governor” for a few months now, has drawn her first Democratic challenger for re-election.

Bob Poe, a former state commissioner and past president of the Anchorage Economic Development Corp., is the first to announce for the race.

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The Palin Effect

When Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was tapped to run as the GOP vice presidential candidate, there was much chatter about the excitement she brought to the base and how she might help improve turnout among Republican voters.

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Troopergate Report: Palin ‘Abused Her Power’

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A report released today finds that as Alaska governor, Sarah Palin “abused her power,” a specific violation of state law. The report is available in pdf here.

Palin was accused of firing the head of the Alaska safety commission, Walt Monegan, for not intervening in what More…