Appreciate the response. Are you going to have anymore local Shenandoah County stories?

Point taken on the Noblesville stopped. As I mentioned, I think it was pretty smart of her to go to mid-market locations in swing state to start the tour off. However, I would counter that this comes with inherent risks–particularly the fact that staff may just not be ready for such a scene at their stores. I may try to go down to Roanoke myself just to scope it out to see how she’s receieved her in our own part of the woods.

I’ll grant you that she is growing politically, and I thought I had struggled to give credit where credit is due. If not, mea culpa. However, the fact of the matter is that ALL the candidates really only have about 1.5 years to get their stuff together. I think we’re starting to see the signs of a turnaround, but there’s a number of key events coming up (CPAC 2010, for example) that will show just how much her operation has grown. The scheduling kerfluffles that plagued her earlier this year are not going to be allowable in the coming fund raising season in some of the major primary states (SC, VA, IA, NH and FL all seem to have alot of state/county fund raising dinners in the winter months).

All this being said, $75 in Border gift cards and a 40% coupon mean that I’ll probably snag her book soon, and then I’ll have a better picture of where she’s headed. At this point, I have no favorites, other than I have a hunch we haven’t seen the nominee emerge yet.

Glad to see you back on the blogging trail! Congratulations on the numbers out of Harrisonburg.

A couple of things about this article need to be addressed. First, Palin is not the manager if the Noblesville Borders bookstore. Borders was responsible for the limited number of wristbands and the disorganization, not Palin.

Palin’s team has actually been very organized on their end. She has brought on several heavyweight political operatives that worked in the White House under the hyper-organized Bush political operation.

Palin is growing politically, and she is handling it much better than some would like to suggest.