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    The Real Palin Gambit

    Posted Friday, August 29, 2008 9:44 PM | By Ann Hulbert
    In a Republican of McCain's vintage, I found it hard not to hear a patronizing tone as he introduced Sarah Palin today, though I'm sure he was bending over backward to avoid it: "Hey, what a feisty young gal I've got here." And something tells me this isn't a ploy to lure undecided women, much less unaligned Hillary supporters: A pro-life NRA babe isn't going to do it for them. Isn't McCain's real target the Evangelical vote? The gambit is already working. James Dobson of Focus on the Family announced earlier this year that he wouldn't and couldn't vote for McCain. Today he pronounced himself converted, thanks to a ticket that now includes someone for whom "the sanctity of life isn't just a political position." Now maybe Dobson will get busy mobilizing the faithful, because it's not just age, but organizational skills, that the McCain campaign has to worry about.
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