The New Yorker ran a long article this week explaining how John McCain came to choose Sarah Palin as his running mate, but it wasn’t very interesting. That said, FiveThirtyEight flags the most interesting bit, which is that the “draft Sarah Palin” movement arose from one Republican’s search on Wikipedia for a sufficiently conservative female politician.
How Palin was chosen
The New Yorker ran a long article this week explaining how John McCain came to choose Sarah Palin as his running mate, but it wasn’t very interesting. That said, FiveThirtyEight flags the most interesting bit, which is that the “draft Sarah Palin” movement arose from one Republican’s search on Wikipedia for a sufficiently conservative female politician.
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