Immediately after the Republican convention, Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s poll numbers were stellar and she became a celebrity in a campaign that disdained celebrity. The media started raising some questions about Palin. But now there are signs that the McCain campaign’s post convention Palin strategy is starting to work.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.