EH> SH> 4. Revs up the base AND excites independents, which no one else
EH>in the party, or
EH> SH> perhaps in the world, could have accomplished.

EH> SH> 5. Puts youth, change, and history on both of the tickets.

EH> SH> 6. May detach some young people, especially women.

EH> SH> 7. May attach some women pissed off about Hillary.

EH> SH> 8. As a pro-life super-achiever, puts feminists in a tizzy.

EH> SH> 9. Revives some of the double-edged nature of the Democratic
EH>primary, which featured
EH> SH> a black vs. a female trail-blazer, and put both sides on notice
EH>on sensitivity issues.
EH> SH> Democrats used to raising charges of racism against Obama's
EH>critics may face charges
EH> SH> of sexism and/or condescension if they try to diss her.

EH> SH> 10. Steps on Obama's claims to have been a reformer, as he
EH>reformed nothing (much less
EH> SH> the corrupt mare's nest of Chicago arrangements), while she was
EH>a dragon-slayer up in Alaska.

EH> SH> 11. As a mother of five, one a Down Syndrome baby, helps her
EH>side take on the Democrats
EH> SH> on abortion extremism and the Born Alive bill.

EH> SH> 12. Reignites the deep and unhealed stresses inside the
EH>Democrats, some of whom will now
EH> SH> wonder more loudly than ever why they didn't pick Hillary.

EH> SH> 13. Counters Michelle in a way Cindy couldn't.

EH> SH> 14. Counter-intuitively, makes the issue of Obama's light resume
EH>more potent than ever.
EH> SH> Her lack of experience is no more than his is. And he's--to use
EH>a term from Alaska, and
EH> SH> the Iditarod--their lead dog.

EH>http://tinyurl.com/6xhju6

She also reaches out to a number of blue collar democrats, both women 
and men alike.  Her best answer so far was to the question, what is your 
favorite meal ?  "Moose Stew."  How do Obama and Biden compete with  
that one ?


Jeff

CMPQwk 1.42-21 9999 Patriotism is not who can leak the most Top Secret
documents to the NY Times ..


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