Politics (well, it is an election year) (crossposted from lj)
Color me completely unsurprised that John McCain chose a woman as his running mate. Color me only a little surprised that she's not much known outside of her home state. I would have thought he'd choose someone with at least a little experience on the national scene. I guess his reasoning is that she's a woman, so maybe that will appeal to Clinton's followers who don't want to vote for Obama, she's pro-life, so that will appeal to the right wing of the Republican party, and she's pretty much unknown outside of Alaska, so there's going to be a plethora of "Who Is She?" stories crowding out anything involving the Dems in the coming weeks and days.

People's already got a story on five things you didn't know about Sarah Palin on their website, but I do wish they'd included at least one thing of real substance.

Hey, does this mean that if Clinton had won the Democratic nomination, McCain would've chosen one of the half dozen or so African-American Republicans? Or, if Obama had asked her to be his VP and she'd accepted, would McCain have chosen a Latin American woman? Or maybe an Asian woman? The possibilities for alternative history novels seem endless...