Sarah Palin

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If John McCain wins the presidency he will bring with him the first female vice-president. I also wrote on September 4th that the McCain-Palin ticket was the first presidential ticket to be comprised of two candidates from the West. If McCain is to be elected there is another trend he will need to overcome and that's winning without a Nixon or Bush on the ticket. In 1928 Republican Herbert Hoover was elected President and and Charles Curtis was his Vice-President.  

Fast forward 80 years and there have been 12 more Presidents elected to office including 5 Republicans. Of those 5 Republicans all of them had either a Bush or Nixon on the ticket.

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Former U.S. Sen. Dennis DeConcini told PolitickerAZ.com Monday that he thinks Sen. John McCain's involvement in the Keating Five scandal of the late '80s and early '90s is fair game as an issue in the presidential contest between the senator from Arizona and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).

The Obama campaign released an Internet video Monday that revisits the scandal, during which five U.S. senators - including DeConcini and McCain - were investigated by the Senate for interjecting themselves into a federal inquiry into the activities of Charles Keating, the financier and "junk bond king" who was jailed for defrauding investors in connection with the collapse of one of his companies, Lincoln Savings & Loan.

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The Sedona ranch of Sen. John McCain (R-Phoenix) will host Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin this week, as she prepares for Thursday's match-up against Democratic counterpart Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.).

Widespread media reports reveal Palin will be sequestered from the reporters and put through what McCain advisers are calling "debate camp," to make sure the first term Alaska governor is on top of her game against Biden, a veteran of six senate terms and two presidential races.

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