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It was a great night for the Republican Party. It looked like that the GOP had taken the House with between fifty and fifty four seats and had reduced the Democratic hold on the Senate by picking up eight seats.

Most of the political pundits, while taking note of how different Washington would be with a divided government, noted how the Governor of Alaska had defeated Senator Lisa Murkowski in the primary and had gone on to easily beat the Democrat in the general election. Most people remembered that Sarah Palin had been on the short list for John McCain’s running mate. The prospect of a second woman on a national ticket had been dashed when McCain had gone a more conventional route and had asked Mitt Romney to run with him. The ticket had gone down to defeat, of course, as was inevitable with an economic slowdown and a grinding war in Iraq.

Little was known about Senator Elect Sarah Palin. She was known to be a conventional conservative, with some expertise in energy policies. How she would do as a United States Senator was as yet unknown.
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