Click on the following link to view a political bio on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin compiled by the nation's newspaper of record, The New York Times.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/sarah_palin/index.html
The points that stand out in her record are the diversity of positions of public service she has held. And according to The Times, she even raised taxes on oil companies in her state.
She has been an incumbent's nightmare in her political career, beating the GOP governor in the Alaska Republican primary in 2006. In the general election, she beat a former governor who campaigned on Palin not having enough experience.
She has only been in the governor's office for almost a year and a half. But she has served in some sort of state oversight capacity since 2004. She has held elected office of some kind since 1992. So she has experience in serving the people.
The obstacle for her in voters' minds is whether she would have the experience to lead America's foreign policy initiatives in the event something happened to a President McCain. As U.S. Sen. Joe Biden said earlier this year, the Oval Office is not the place for on-the-job training.
Yet Gov. Palin certainly has the most experience of anyone in the presidential race when it comes to running responsible government. And that is the kind of change both campaigns say they want to bring to Washington, D.C.
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