Det er ikke bare Aftenposten som får seg en knekk idag, Alexandra Gutierrez hos Slate tok også fullstendig feil:
On Tuesday, in her home state, Sarah Palin’s favorite will probably get trounced. Joe Miller is widely expected to lose by a large margin to incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the Republican primary—an embarrassing defeat for the former governor, who has endorsed Miller, but also to Miller’s other major backer, the Tea Party Express.
Akkurat som Kristoffer Rønneberg i Aftenposten, stolte hun litt for mye på enkeltmålinger av rundt 300 mennesker. Gutierrez lovet sine lesere en utklassing av Palins foretrukne kandidat i Alaska, men i skrivende stund leder herr Miller med rundt 2% etter ca. 98% av stemmene er telt opp.
Palins erkefiende Murkowski kan fremdeles ende opp med seieren, men her hadde mediene lovet en “smackdown” – det blir det ikke noe av for å si det mildt.
Gutierrez var bombesikker på nederlag for Palin, og hos den progressive nettavisen The American Prospect etterlot hun mange gullkorn igår, som f.eks.:
As Sarah Palin works to become nearly ubiquitous in the Lower 48, many of her former supporters in Alaska are trying just as hard to forget her. When Joe Miller loses the primary today, hardly anyone in Alaska will be surprised that Palin’s chosen candidate did poorly. Palin’s influence in the state started to slip when she agreed to be John McCain’s running mate in August 2008, and it only eroded further when she resigned as governor last July. Now, Palin is mostly a reality TV nuisance in the very state she’s always gushing about.
Gull verdt! Can I have some more?
Today Miller will be added to that list of those embarrassments, and there will be some fretting about Sarah Palin’s status as a GOP star. And maybe — just maybe — those fascinated by her will start to realize what Alaskans have long figured out: These days, the former governor is more ringmaster than kingmaker.
Eller kanskje – bare kanskje – så vil de som hater Sarah Palin så mye at de har mistet gangsynet innse at hun faktisk får til mer enn det man skulle tro.
