Palin Reveals 2012 Plans: Kindergarten For Son
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(PHOENIX) - Wearing an "Alaska Grown" sweatshirt, Sarah Palin stood under the desert sun to take questions from members of her traveling press corps one last time before returning to her home state.
The former Republican vice presidential nominee reflected on what was a relatively short, but indisputably strange, trip on the campaign trail. Asked about her thoughts on 2012, Palin was coy.
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Palin Casts Historic Vote: "Forever, I'm Gonna Be Sarah From Alaska"
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(WASILLA, ALASKA) - After campaigning coast to coast on Monday, Sarah Palin caught a few winks on a red-eye flight to her home state, where fresh snow glistened in the early-morning moonlight as the temperature hovered around 14 degrees.
Palin voted early this morning inside the tiny City Hall building where just six years ago she presided as mayor of this once unknown frontier town outside Anchorage. Proudly donning her "I Voted Today" sticker, the Alaska governor delivered a short statement to reporters and took a few questions before she heads to Phoenix to find out whether she'll become the first female vice president of the United States.
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Palin Defends Hank Williams, Jr. After He Says, "Obama's Not Real Crazy About" The National Anthem
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(COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) - At a Sarah Palin rally here tonight, country music star Hank Williams, Jr. took the stage to sing the national anthem, as he has done at Palin events across the country for weeks. But this time, the singer decided to share his personal views about Barack Obama with the crowd.
"You know, I'm usually at 'Monday Night Football' tonight, but Colorado, this is a lot more important tonight," Williams, Jr. said. "Join me now in our national—you know, that song that, uh, Mr. Obama's not real crazy about, we're singing it right now."
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Palin Suggests Executive Experience Is Key Presidential Attribute
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(JEFFERSON CITY, MO.) - Here on her second stop of a six-rally final day of the campaign, Sarah Palin briefly went off script to question whether a United States senator has the right kind of experience to be president.
Palin set up her remarks with a familiar attack on Barack Obama's relative newcomer status.
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Palin Wonders Whether Democrats Think Terrorists Have Changed Their Minds
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(COLUMBIA, MO.) - A fired-up Sarah Palin began her final campaign push at an outdoor rally on an unseasonably warm weather in the wealthy Cleveland suburb of Lakewood. At various points in her speech, the small crowd of under 1,000 people chanted, "We will win!" and the Alaska governor seemed to feed off their energy.
"I'll tell ya, this is the right place to be for us to kick off this final day of campaigning—this is the right place to be," Palin said. "You can just feel it here, you can just feel it here in Ohio, victory's coming, we can do this—we can win. We can win, Ohio. And we must win for you!"
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No Sleep 'Til Phoenix For Palin
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(CLEVELAND) - Sarah Palin campaigns in six cities in five states on Monday, and that's not even the most grueling part of her final push before Election Day.
After her last campaign rally in Elko, Nev., concludes at about 11:15pm local time, Palin will fly overnight to Anchorage, so that she can vote at around 7am Alaska time in Wasilla. She'll then fly straight to Phoenix to be in place for the Republicans' Election Night party and isn't expected to land there until about 7:30pm ET.
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Palin: Tina Fey Better Hold Onto Her Sarah Palin Outfit
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(COLUMBUS, OHIO) - Projecting confidence of a come-from-behind win on Election Day, Sarah Palin had some advice for a certain NBC actress who's been a thorn in the Republican VP nominee's side for almost two months.
"Now speaking of great performances, did anyone catch John McCain last night on SNL — 'Saturday Night Live?'" Palin asked the crowd at an airport hangar rally here.
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Palin Unleashes New Attack Against Obama On Coal
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(MARIETTA, OHIO) - Seizing on a newly released audio tape picked up by the Drudge Report, Sarah Palin took the opportunity here in coal country to accuse Barack Obama of "talking about bankrupting the coal industry."
"He said that, sure, if the industry wants to build coal-fired power plants, then they can go ahead and try, he says, but they can do it only in a way that will bankrupt the coal industry, and he's comfortable letting that happen," Palin said. "And you got to listen to the tape."
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Someone Might Want To Update Sarah Palin's Teleprompter
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(CANTON, OHIO) - Last week, a familiar dirty trick was reported in parts of Virginia where fake fliers were distributed, advising Democrats to vote on Wednesday, Nov. 5, rather than on Election Day. But at a rally here this morning, Sarah Palin inadvertently implored her own supporters to get out and vote the day after ballots have already been counted.
"Now with just three days from the election, the time for choosing is near. Ohio, are you ready to help us carry your state to victory?" Palin said.
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Palin Makes Final Ohio Push
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(CANTON, OHIO) - Since becoming the Republican vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin has spent more time in Ohio than any other state but Pennsylvania. On Sunday, she'll blanket the state one last time before Election Day, holding rallies in Canton, Marietta, Columbus and Batavia.
The amount of time Palin is spending in Ohio in the final days shows just how crucial the Republicans consider victory in the state to be. On Monday morning, the Alaska governor will hold one final Ohio rally in Lakewood, just outside Cleveland.
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Bob Dole (Sans Elizabeth) Stumps For Palin In Raleigh
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(RALEIGH, N.C.) - As his wife Elizabeth was making her own campaign stop about two hours to the west in Salisbury, former Sen. Bob Dole spoke at Sarah Palin's rally Saturday night rally here.
The traveling press arrived after Dole spoke, but two people who were there said the 1996 Republican presidential nominee told a few funny anecdotes to warm up the crowd.
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Palin Promises Not To Take Away Man's Bulldozer
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(POLK CITY, FLA.) - Stump speeches can get repetitive for Sarah Palin, as she tours her way across Florida's I-4 Corridor, reading the same lines off of her teleprompter at each event. So at an airport rally here, she took a couple of moments to go briefly off script as she looked out onto the crowd of about 2,700 people.
"Look at this sign, too: 'They can't have my religion, my gun, or my bulldozer,'" Palin said, as she pointed out into the crowd. "So says 'Jay the Contractor.' Jay, we won't take your bulldozer."
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Palin: "Government Is The Problem, Doggone It!"
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(NEW PORT RICHEY, FLA.) - Sarah Palin pressed her argument that Barack Obama would move the country in a dramatically leftward direction.
"Our opponent's plan is just for more bigger government, and doggone it, government is the problem, not the solution," Palin said at a rally here.
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For Palin, 3 Traditional Battlegrounds Still Take Precedence
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(NEW PORT RICHEY, FLA.) - For all of the talk of the new battleground states in this election, Sarah Palin is devoting the majority of her time in the closing days to stumping in three long-established swing states.
On Friday, the Republican VP nominee took a bus tour across the central swath of Pennsylvania, and on Sunday, she'll head back to Ohio for a series of rallies there.
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Palin: Obama's "Phony" Tax Plan Is Unraveling
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(YORK, PA.) - For the second day in a row, Sarah Palin focused the entirety of her attacks against Barack Obama on the Democratic nominee's tax plan, rather than his personal associations.
"Just yesterday, we learned that America's GDP actually fell in the third quarter of this year, and that confirms what we already know, and that's that our economy right now is shrinking," Palin said. "This is the worst possible time to raise taxes, but Barack Obama still wants to."
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