vice president

Sen. Barack Obama may have the elite liberal media in his corner, but Sen. John McCain has got one heavyweight on his side: President George W. Bush.
In one of “Saturday Night Live’s” most brilliant skits in recent memory, Will Ferrell reprised his role as the flailing current president last night in a special Thursday edition [...]

Voters around the state, from Anchorage shopkeepers to political insiders, say Sarah Palin has been re-branded, both in message and style, for the national arena. What has the McCain campaign wrought?

Sen. John McCain gave a remarkable interview with radio personality Don Imus this morning, and the principle topic of discussion was Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
McCain dismissed the notion, which Imus said he shared, that Palin performed poorly during interviews with ABC’s Charles Gibson and CBS’ Katie Couric:

At campaign stops in northern Minnesota yesterday, Todd Palin, husband of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, attracted enthusiastic crowds of supporters who cheered his wife’s vice-presidential candidacy, oppose legal abortion and favor the 2nd Amendment.
The First Dude delivered a couple of short speeches and mingled with supporters — some of whom expressed fear of an Obama [...]

On a trip up to Wasilla, Alaska, Noam Scheiber of The New Republic picked up a great find.
On the back of a city council document,  when she was a council member, we can see Palin’s plans for her mayoral campaign.
Most prominent is her name, written with a marker in cursive.
Across the top [...]

Yesterday, watching the Bengals fumble their way to their fifth consecutive loss, I realized there was one thing missing (besides an inexplicable ability of running back Chris Perry to hold onto the ball): Sarah Palin.
Yes, the GOP vice presidential nominee. She would have made my afternoon of misery complete. Because while her talking style has [...]

The Alaska governor represents a new sort of female politician. Instead of Hillary’s Rodham Clinton’s out-policy-wonking the boys, Palin offers anti-elite common sense.

Amid all the reactions to last night’s vice presidential debate, one thing seems clear: moderator Gwen Ifill went pretty easy on Sarah Palin.
Ifill may have had her legs pulled out from under her when the pundits of the right raised concerns over her impartiality following revelations that she was writing a book titled “Breakthrough: Politics [...]

Vice presidents don’t matter? Think again. More than 30 percent have gone on to hold the higher office.

The Des Moines Register has posted several video clips of what appears to be, at times, a tense interview with Sen. John McCain conducted yesterday by the newspaper’s editorial board.
In one clip, McCain strongly rejects a questioner’s suggestion that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is too experienced for the vice presidency.
In the following clip, we see [...]