Alaska's population is about 700 000. If your state has a city that size, you've got a soundbite:

[struggle4progress]

"Being governor of Alaska for a year and half is like being mayor of <city X> for a year and a half. It's not adequate experience"

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. That's much bigger than any city here, but I see what you are saying

[marmar]

2. That's like one neighborhood in Brooklyn....

n/t

[norepubsin08]

3. Pierce County Washington

750,000

[ZombieNixon]

4. That less than the metro area of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

[XemaSab]

5. She was mayor of Wasilla, pop 8400

Modoc County, California has more people.

[madinmaryland]

11. Wow! If that isn't experience, then I don't know what is!!

[angstlessk]

6. I now live in Detroit...900,000 population...Kwame Kilpatrick good

enough to be vp...it's even closer to Canada (foreign relations experience) than Alaska is to Russia...hey, somebody take him off our hands!

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. San Diego California

[norepubsin08]

8. When I was a small child

My family lived in Frankfurt...early one June morning we flew to Berlin and saw John F. Kennedy speak..there were more people there to hear him speak, than there are in all of Alaska!

[SoCalDem]

9. jinx.. I posted almost the same thing.. gmta.. D U is so slow

It took forever to refresh the page.. i did not see yours ..sorry :)

[Ezlivin]

10. But how many of those 700,000 are moose?

I'm just sayin'...

[KitchenWitch]

12. The cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul together are ~700,000

Seriously, there are only a handful of cities whose population is over 500,000 in the US.

[notadmblnd]

13. Detroit between 700,000 and a million and I don't think anyone would ever ask Kwame

Killpatrick to run as VP.