When asked whether it's possible Palin stepped down because of negative news that has not emerged, Matalin referenced Palin's own words that investigators have dug through research in the ethics investigation.
Then it was Obama's turn for questions, including what he thought about Sarah Palin's criticism of him and what he thought about Palin's public service experience as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.
Parnell, who took office after Palin's resignation, mounted a 2008 challenge to longtime U.S. Rep. Don Young with Palin's backing, falling short in a GOP primary.
And it is not the handful of GOP governors such as Alaska's Sarah Palin, South Carolina's Mark Sanford or Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, who must pay attention to the needs of their states in these tough economic times if they hope to run for president in 2012.
Palin's office is also being investigated to see whether Palin or any of her staff pressured an Alaska public safety commissioner to fire Alaska state trooper Mike Wooten, who had been in a messy divorce and child custody battle with Palin's sister.
There was no "conspiracy" linking those two events, but the mainstream media quite predictably chose to make them headliners, all but obliterating detailed discussion of health care reform for more than two weeks (and this just when the subject was beginning to resurface after the blanket coverage of Michael Jackson's and Sarah Palin's exits).
Which means for all the talk of sexism, the campaign seemed most livid about the challenge to McCain's judgment, not Palin's record.
Howard Bess is a retired Baptist pastor who's known Palin for years.
Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, Mississippi's Haley Barbour, Alabama's Bob Riley and Alaska's Sarah Palin have joined Perry in turning down extra unemployment insurance money.
One McCain source said Palin's husband, Todd Palin, was frustrated with how the campaign was preparing his wife for the debate, but did not elaborate.
Former presidential contender Fred Thompson, who delivered a well-received speech Tuesday night, said he's behind Palin as vice president, but he wants to know more about her.
Monegan's backers asserted that Palin had fired him because he refused to sack her ex-brother-in-law, a state police officer who had been involved in a bitter custody dispute with Palin's sister.
At the Republican National Convention, McCain's running mate Sarah Palin downplayed Obama's time as a community organizer back in Chicago.
Unlike Obama's empty protestations of support for Israel, Palin's support is obviously heartfelt and therefore will not diminish while Obama remains in office.
Biden's broader goal is to make McCain and Palin's basic credibility an issue, thus damaging McCain's previous brand as a practitioner of straight talk.
Mike Strutton, Vitrue's director of product management, attributes much of Palin's popularity to Fey and Saturday Night Live's constant skewering.
But more serious, the interview's been considered such a disaster by some of Palin's former supporters among conservative columnists, that some of them are now calling on her to drop out of the race.
Alaska's senior senator, Lisa Murkowski, was not happy with Palin's decision.
Biden's comments have also become a fixture of both McCain and Palin's stump speeches as they look to stress what they call the Illinois senator's relative lack of foreign policy experience.
John McCain's choice of Palin as his running-mate by a 54 to 37 percent majority.
Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin has set up special "immediate action" committees to deal with both the causes and consequences of global warming.
Speaker after speaker contrasted Mr Obama's record of rubbing along with machine politicians in Chicago with Mrs Palin's record of confronting corruption within her own party.
McCain's pick of Palin and the interruption of the hurricane effectively combined to contain any big bump Obama might have received from his convention last week.
In explaining Monegan's termination, Palin said she wanted to take the Alaska Department of Public Safety in a "different, more energetic direction, " according to the Anchorage Daily News.
Two McCain advisers seemed to go out of their way to say they thought the media's scrutiny of Palin was not sexist: former Ohio Congressman Rob Portman and eBay CEO Meg Whitman.
In her speech at Monday's rally, Palin said the Republican Party should "man up" and support Tea Party candidates such as O'Donnell, who has been criticized by some Republican figures, including longtime strategist Karl Rove.
Liberals called her the most divisive politician since Richard Nixon or George Wallace, and some former Hillary Clinton supporters said McCain's selection of Palin was a cynical gambit that wouldn't help him sway female voters.
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