Is Palin As Open As She Claims?

Palin's Alaska campaign was based on the notion that she would be 100% open with the people about what was going on in Alaska, such as her plan to publish Alaska's spending online for citizens to view. Although she carried out her promise, the fact that she used private forms of communication (such as her email account as mentioned in a pervious post) for most issues serves to show that she went back on the promise of her Alaska campaign. If the American people couple McCain and his Vice President nominee, this could cause Americans to think that the promises that Palin and McCain are making are simply election manouvers.

Palin, still in Florida, rallied from Jacksonville in the northeast to Pensacola in the pandhandle, drawing out crowds of liberal-loathing Americans in red t-shirts. The mudd slinging continued, and in some cases tensions grew so thin that onlookers would be under the impression that these were not McCain-Palin rallies, but rather Anti-Obama rallies.

As Julie Bosman said in one article:

"If there were undecideds, independents or swing voters among them, they were awfully hard to spot."

Finally, McCain and Palin appeared together on a Fox television program called "Hannity and Colmes," where the conservative host Hannity gave the candidates seemingly pre-rehearsed simple questions, almost as if they were trying to make up for a certain interview with a certain Katie Couric.


Sources:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iNxTApa2sQRu0Xx99P3jt2bEXw7gD93LRF403
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,434841,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/hannityandcolmes/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/us/politics/08palin.html?em