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TWI correspondent Ana Marie Cox, reporting from the McCain campaign trail, provides a transcript of Gov. Sarah Palin’s energy policy speech and highlights the many times Palin strays from the prepared, teleprompted remarks. For more on Palin’s deviation from the McCain campaign’s plans, in speeches and elsewhere, see Ana Marie’s earlier post here.

Ana Marie Cox, our newest correspondent, reports from the campaign trail with Sen. John McCain. Here she covers Gov. Sarah Palin’s speech today in Toledo, Ohio.

TOLEDO, Ohio — The McCain camp has pushed back hard on the notion that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is operating independently from the senator’s campaign — or, in the colorful parlance of a typically unnamed staffer, “gone rogue.”
Having observed the McCain campaign for almost two years, I’m inclined to believe Palin’s less-scripted moments are, in [...]