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quakerboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 01:49 AM
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1. I think that the last two are worthy
of being split into more. Particularly because of the Community organizer vs mayor quip

When Obama was a community organizer, Palin was runner up Miss Alaska and a sports reporter
When Obama was president of Harvard law/constitutional law prof/civil rights lawyer, Palin was running for city council.
When Obama was a state senator for 750000, Palin was mayor of 6000
When Obama was elected US senator for 13 million people, Palin was working on the Ted Stephens excellence 527
When Obama was working to earn the votes of 50 states, She was governor of one of the smallest.
Now that Obama was elected with 17 million votes, she was chosen by one. Which one is a point of contention.


As a side note, I just did some checking. Someone can correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that of all the elected governors of the 50 US states, Sarah Palin was elected by the fewest number of voters.

I only specifically checked for states with populations under 1 million. She got 114k votes, with 683k residents. For comparison, the governor of N Dakota got 220k from 639k residents. S. Dakota Gov got 189k votes out of 796k residents. Even Wyoming, with the smallest population of 522k, awarded their governor 135k votes, or 21k more than Palin was able to wring from Alaska.

As a side side note, who knew that the governor of Wyoming was a democrat?
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