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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (313643)7/9/2009 6:44:11 AM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793900
 
People may be listening for someone who knows how to talk to them rather than at them or down to them.

They also may respond favorably to a candidate who does not respond favorably to the Washington political class -- nor it to her.


Although you know exactly how I feel about Palin, I think the two paragraphs I quoted from the piece describe precisely the reasons for her appeal. In a word, people are sick of the Beltway and conventional pols.