Slide Show: The Sarah Palin Saga

Sarah Palin, the youngest and first woman to serve as governor of Alaska, enjoys huge approval numbers--but something is rotten in Juneau. Her short tenure is already clouded by ethics investigations, the most prominent of which involves the firing of a state trooper ostensibly because of a personal grudge. These local scandals coupled with her lack of experience (she was elected to her first term in 2006) are deemed by most pundits as sufficient to rule her out as a potential national candidate.
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