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Sorry if you needed a more descriptive headline. Doing that would go beyond what anything in the political world is obsessed about.
Linda Feldman of the Christian Science Monitor reports that even with health care news and Obama visiting the Far East, it's all about the rogue.
It may not be about her politics (although that is part of it) but she's rather more of a cultural icon that merely became famous as a result of her vice presidential candidacy. You probably have a strong opinion about her, and how about she's everything that's good/wrong about this country. But her popularity transcends that. As Feldman states, Palin "has given our People-magazine-saturated culture exactly what it craves: beauty, drama, and enough everyday-ness to give average Joes and Janes something to relate to."
Media Matters goes the extra step and shows that Palin is not very popular, yet the media and the conservative shows are in love with her to the point that they wouldn't mind asking her to the prom.
Writes Jamison Froser: "She has pulled off the difficult task of uniting 60 to 70 percent of Americans behind a single political position. That position happens to be that Palin shouldn't be anywhere near the Oval Office, but it's still an impressively large coalition."
She's the Brett Favre of the non-sports world. You hate Brett Favre, but you're still attuned to what he's doing. They're all paying attention to her to see what she does next. Either it's out of adoration or concern that she'll rise to power (shades of "keep your friends close but your enemies closer"). However the methodology, that book is No. 1 and it'll be there for quite some time.
In conclusion: Sarah Palin.
Warholized Palin assisted by Big Huge Labs.
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