by Jason George
CLEVELAND - If Senators Joe Biden, John McCain or Barack Obama feel fatigued on this last Monday before Election Day, perhaps a peek at Gov. Sarah Palin's schedule could provide some 'better her than me' comfort.
It'd be hard to top the distance Palin will travel today to campaign: the governor begins her morning here and finishes her 'day' tomorrow, 24 hours later, in Anchorage. (That's approximately 4,560 total air miles or about the equivalent of flying from Chicago to Prague.)
In Alaska terms, that's 3.92 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Races.
In between her time in the sky, Palin will attend six rallies in five states - Ohio, Missouri, Iowa and Nevada. Those are all states Bush won all in 2004, but are also all states where Obama now leads, slightly, or where it's too close to call. (Most polls show Obama comfortably ahead in Iowa, but the McCain camp has argues that they believe Iowa to be much closer. Over the weekend, The Des Moines Register's Iowa Poll showed Obama up by 17 points.)
While Palin has largely stuck to small towns in recent days, today she'll mostly appear in mid-sized cities, like Reno, Nev., and Colorado Springs, Co., where there will no doubt be plenty of local media exposure - a critical asset for the outspent McCain-Palin campaign in these final 48 hours.
The governor has not discussed what she'll do in Alaska, but her staff reports that Palin will vote in Wasilla, about an hour north of Anchorage, where - if you haven't heard - she was previously mayor. No word why Palin didn't save herself a trip by voting early by mail or fax.
Yes, in spread-out Alaska, you can vote absentee by fax.









Comments
Why isn't she going to be at the posh Arizona resort and spa with her running mate for the election celebration party when they win?
Posted by: lochnessmonster | November 3, 2008 7:37 AM
I hope she gets ALL THE WAY THERE and STAYS THERE!!!
Posted by: MDawson | November 3, 2008 7:54 AM
We here in Missouri hope Palin finds the weather nice in Alaska and decides to stay. My eighty-five year old mother uses old common sense to talk politics. ..... She is voting for Obama. .................
http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/11/02/old-women-talk-politics/
Posted by: Ohg Rea Tone | November 3, 2008 8:16 AM
Maybe McCain didn't invite her to the party... Wasilla needs her more, anyway. She can straighten out the mess she left when she forgot to process the deed for the sports center there... despite roads leading to it, it still isn't built.
Posted by: Irene | November 3, 2008 8:23 AM
i personally like sarah, i think that she would make a great vice president and i hope that she wins. i go to high school and were doing a mock election and i will be voting for McCain.
Posted by: abigail | November 3, 2008 8:37 AM
I will say it again !! Senator McCain has committed a great disservice to America and to Governor Palin. The great diservice he did to our nation, he chose a very, under-qualified person, to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency. Is that serious decision-making ?? I, and most of the nation, do not think so !! There are so many more, qualified women, of the Republican persuasion, that he could have chosen from, why didn't he !!? Only Senator McCain knows and he isn't saying !!
The disservice he did to Governor Palin was avoidable, on both of their parts. Had she come clean, about some of her past, ill-advised decisions, maybe Senator McCain would have withdrawn the offer. On the other hand, had Senator McCain taken a serious look at her record, in terms of experience and decision-making, I do not think, for a moment, he would have offered her the Vice-Presidential slot !! They both failed the simple test of forthrightness !! Neither were willing to tell the other their shortcomings and, hocus-pocus, a Republican national disaster. Wasn't that the third one, in as many general elections ? Seems to me, it is a very familiar script, the Republicans have been following for a few years, now !! We sure are getting tired of it, aren't we, America !!?
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, Chicago | November 3, 2008 9:54 AM
Sarah palin's sugar daddy, John Mccain should have invited her to party on his home turf. Then he could have splurged a bit more on her! It is funny how McCain calls down Obama for being a "redistributionist" and yet wants to redistribute his alaska's running mate's designer clothes that he purchased for 150.000$! It is simply pathetic that the Republicans have to pay for sarah palin's wardrobe when so many people have lost their jobs and homes! I hope Obama wins, John and cindy retreat to Arizona and Sarah Barricuda Palin goes back to Alaska where she can ski-doo with her first dude todd to the bridge to nowhere!
Posted by: kikiquela | November 3, 2008 12:05 PM
Now is the time for Americans to shed the Republican Party and endow America with a party and leader, Barack obama , who will bring the changes needed to improve lives of americans. Sarah Palin can go back to alaska knowing she cost John Mccain the loss of respect and many votes!
Posted by: kikiquela | November 3, 2008 12:09 PM
To Mr. Fitzgerald in Chicago: So well put that no need to bother repeating exactly what I would have said. You are spot on, but I will just add another thing I personally don't like about Gov. Palin, and that is her advocacy of aerial wolf kills.....one could argue we need wildlife management in wild places where folks actually live to keep their own stock of cows, etc. safe from predators, and it will soon be coming here to WY, MT and ID I'm afraid. However, in Alaska, the wild animals are free to roam as it is THEIR territory after all, and the natural cycle of life can be played out with culling wildlife, so we don't need someone to ruthlessly chase them down in planes to point of exhaustion, where they then shoot the wolf or the bear point blank and the animal dies a tragically brutal death. The 14 pups shot in the head there recently is under investigation but we all know it will go away with no repercussions. Now, take your mind from that and look at the heart of the person who could practice this type of slaughter - that tells me all I need to know about Gov. Palin, even if she weren't so woefully inadequately prepared to enter world politics. For more info on this to back up facts, see the DefendersofWildlife website.
Posted by: katie belle | November 3, 2008 12:15 PM
Kikiquela; I like the idea of getting rid of the Republican party... McCain and Palin are excellent examples of a political party gone awry... someone out there needs to get a 3rd party going and it wouldn't take much to do better than the Repubs have.
Posted by: Irene | November 3, 2008 1:57 PM
The more she campaigns, the more she opens her mouth, the more votes she loses for McCain.
Posted by: ericmiami | November 3, 2008 2:30 PM
" katie belle ", I must confess, as to my ignorance, concerning wildlife management, but thanks for the brief, but gory description. I am sure there is a better way to control the wild population of the wolf. Oh, I do see the website address, thanks. I will check it out. Though, I have been a city-dweller, all of my life, not even, ever living in a house, always apartments, I am still, very curious about nature. As a matter of fact, I was a night-watchman at the Lincoln Park Zoo, here in Chicago, one of only two admission-free zoos in our country. The other being, our National Zoo in Washington D. C., if I am not mistaken !! It is a shame that the conservation of our environment and the wildlife, on Earth, hasn't been better cared for, but materialism is the rule of the day !! Maybe, with the good chance that Senator Obama and Senator Biden have, in winning tomorrow's election, we may see a better day for our environment and the other species living with us, on this great planet. Miracles do happen !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, Chicago | November 3, 2008 6:51 PM
Palin is headed home already? I guess she doesn't have any delusions about the outcome tomorrow...
Posted by: Tom O | November 3, 2008 7:21 PM
Most of you obamabots are only watching certain news channels or the Obama wesite. Palin is not the reason this may go Obama's way - it's the prostitution of the media...you betcha!
Posted by: bilnded by the one | November 3, 2008 10:27 PM