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Palin E-Mails Suggest Tension With McCain Staffers
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIn the wake of Vanity Fair's scathing exposé detailing tensions between Sarah Palin and many former staffers to John McCain during the '08 presidential campaign, CBS News has obtained an e-mail exchange between Palin and high-level McCain advisers reinforcing the perception that the relationship was anything but harmonious. The subject of the e-mails was the then-growing controversy about whether Palin's husband, Todd, had been a member of the Alaska Independence Party, a group that advocated the state's secession from the union. More broadly, the e-mail chain highlights the tension between ...
Is Alaska the New Florida?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyBy any measure, Alaska is a red state. Since its star was added to our flag back in 1959, the place has only voted Democrat for president once, in '64. While much of the country seemed to turn a bluer hue in this year's election, Alaska held its ground, and gave McCain/Palin a nearly identical margin of victory (62%-36%) as it had to George Bush vs. John Kerry. Despite seeming constancy from points north, there are more than a few peculiarities to what went down in the tundra in '08. Via ABC's Rick Klein:Election officials in Alaska were preparing for record-breaking turnout on Tuesday, with ...
Palling Around
By David Knowles - Politics DailyYesterday, I wrote about the "company you keep" fallacy. The guilt by association charge is a fallacy when Sarah Palin uses it, and it is a fallacy when supporters of Barack Obama do, too. The following video makes the tit-for-tat case, but by no means does it prove that Palin shares the ideological values of the Alaska Independence Party. Though Todd Palin was indeed a party member, we don't know the extent of the overlap of his own personal views with those of AIP. There are many people who identify themselves as Republicans or Democrats, for instance, who simply don't believe in large ...
Guilt by Association
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIn philosophical parlance, it is known as the "Bad Company Fallacy." Guilt-by-association posits that if you befriend someone who has questionable beliefs, then, by definition, you too have questionable beliefs. This "company you keep" critique has been a running theme in this year's race for the White House, and it exploded this week when Sarah Palin and John McCain decided to try refocus Barack Obama's associations with William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright into a central theme of their campaign. Obama has fired back with McCain's involvement in the Keating 5 scandal, and, in terms of ...
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