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The (palin) surge

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I don't know how much of the anticipation of the McCain VP announcement was orchestrated by the campaign and how much was due to curiosity, but it worried the Obama campaign enough that it charged:

"Tonight would be political malpractice," Obama communications chief Dan Pfeiffer told Politico. "It's one more piece of evidence that the McCain campaign is a war room masquerading as a presidential campaign."

(via memeorandum)

Well, McCain didn't commit "malpractice." Hot Air called it correctly:

Rob Schenck, president of the National Clergy Council, is also hearing from sources that she's the pick. What an unbelievable head fake by McCain, perfectly executed to build suspense and knock The One off the front page this morning. Mind-blowing.

How much of this was orchestrated by the McCain campaign and how much was simply news organizations trying to get a scoop, I have no idea. But the eventual confirmation of and announcement that Sarah Palin was the choice ended up being a PR coup for the McCain campaign, knocking Sen. Obama's acceptance speech out of the news cycle without committing "malpractice."