After a week of Democrats talking up Obama's and Joe Biden's claims to be just regular, down-to-earth fellas (despite being, respectively, an Ivy League graduate and - when he was elected in 1972 - the fifth-youngest senator in US history) an interesting question from Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com:
Palin is the most manifestly ordinary person ever to be nominated for a major party ticket... Palin isn't merely playing at being ordinary, the way that Bill Clinton (Rhodes Scholar) or George W. Bush (son of a president) or Hillary Clinton (wife of a president) might. She really, really comes across that way – like someone who had won a sweepstakes or an essay content. Her authenticity factor is off-the-charts good; her biography sings. But do Americans really want their next-door-neighbor running for Vice President, or rather someone who seems like one?
• posted by Claudia Jean
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