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McCain Taps Gov. Sarah Palin….

...as presidential running mate.


Sen. John McCain picked first-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate Friday, adding a little-known but reform-minded woman to his ticket. Introducing her today, he said she has "strong principles, a fighting spirit and deep compassion," and praised her record of fighting corruption.

"She's exactly what this country needs to help me fight…the same old Washington politics of me first and country second," he told the raucous crowd at a rally in Dayton, Ohio.

The move is the most dramatic in a series of efforts to appeal to Hillary Clinton supporters still disappointed that she didn't capture the Democratic nomination, and Gov. Palin made an overt appeal to them. She paid homage, first to Geraldine Ferraro, who ran on the Democratic ticket in 1984, and then to Sen. Clinton "who showed such determination and grace in her presidential campaign."

Well played Mr. McCain. This seems, as the article pointed out, as little more than a very obvious attempt to pander to and collect the angry-and-stubborn-Clinton-supporter demographic who have decided so spitefully to drift over to Team McCain. Otherwise, what an insanely random choice.

How do you think this will effect the McCain campaign? The Obama campaign? Regardless of your political preference, are you happy or displeased with this choice?




In 2006, then-editor Steve Smith of The Spokesman-Review had the idea of starting a publication for an often forgotten audience: teenagers. The Vox Box was a continuation of the Vox, an all-student staffed newspaper published by The Spokesman-Review. High school student journalists who staffed the Vox made all content decisions as they learn about the trade of journalism. This blog's mission was to give students an opportunity to publish their voices. The Vox Box and the Vox wrapped up in June 2009, but you can follow former staffers' new blog at http://voxxiez.blogspot.com.