Jed Lewison of HuffPo has put together a useful and short (3:47) video montage of moments from Sarah Palin's gubernatorial debates in Alaska. I had trouble an embeddable version, but just click here to go to Lewison's analysis and then click through to watch the clips.
Basically, she's not bad. She sounds like a pretty normal local politician, neither shockingly brilliant nor catastrophically stupid. If she does this well, she'll have a functional win, probably.
Of course, she was in a comfort zone on Alaska issues. She had been a mayor and lived there almost all of her life, so everything she was talking about wasn't completely new to her. By contrast, it's obvious that she's never given the Supreme Court three seconds' thought in her entire life, except for the Roe v. Wade matter, and knows nothing about a hundred different things. So we'll just have to see if she can waltz through.
