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Article: Palin's New Role: Traditional Running Mate; Vice Presidential Nominee Fiercely Attacking Opposition While Courting GOP Base
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- The Washington Post
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- October 11, 2008
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In her initial days as a vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov.
Sarah Palin sought to reach beyond the Republican base to
independents and moderate Democrats dissatisfied with Sen. Barack
Obama. At campaign events, she praised Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
(D-N.Y.) and openly courted her former supporters, while
highlighting her own husband's union membership.
But since last week's vice presidential debate, Palin has taken
on the role of a more traditional running mate, serving as a fierce
critic of Obama and playing to her party's core supporters. Little
of the "lipstick" humor of her speech at the Republican National
Convention remains, and praise for Clinton, a stump-speech line
often ...