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Originally Posted by drgoodtrips
You might be right. If this does gain a head of steam, she might not have a choice. It's always so hard at this time in election years, especially posting here, to know which rumors/issues will get significant play and which are just noticed by political junkies.
I suspect that if this starts breaking all over the evening news then she'll need to figure out some way to address it beyond denials through campaign spokesperson. If it isn't all over the news, I bet mum will be the word.
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That point about the political junkies is significant.
If it does
not become a major news story, I believe she will suffer for it.
The initial excitement about her is dying away now, as it must, and more questions are being asked. Stories like these can be dynamite within defined groups: that is, they are spread through the grapevine and can hit very hard on election day.
That is exactly what happened with the Ted Haggard story. It certainly was a major news scandal, but for people within my world, it was much bigger - a true body blow, and an indication that something was terribly wrong - and the impact was much bigger on election day than the media allowed for.
Palin's enthusiastic supporters are not part of my general circle, but I can see the same thing potentially happening.