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The Alaska governor jazzed the conservative base, and she also set a pick for McCain to recast himself as a maverick reformer.
FORBES: The Economy Is The Story
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One of the fears among Republicans all along has been that the party's conservative base, not considering a former governor of Massachusetts who once backed abortion rights and his own version of government health insurance to be one of their own, would drift away.
WSJ: Three Reasons the Presidential Race Isn't Over
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In 1964, the Republican Party was unhappily split going into the primaries that year, between a hard-edged, populist true believer who many feared might prove unelectable (Goldwater then, Palin today) and a wealthy northeastern governor distrusted by the base as wishy-washy (Rockefeller then, Romney today).
FORBES: Bye Bye Beijing, Hello White House?