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She also changed her Twitter handle from SarahPalinAK to SarahPalinUSA some time ago. She was Governor of AK when using the former so I hope the latter implies corresponding aspirations. That said I wish she'd get in soon! As an Iowan I have to pick earlier than most. The Iowa straw poll CAN be a useful pruner of the field and it could have been a chance for Palin to shine. Nearly 1% of the total population of Iowa was there the time W won (and I when voted for Forbes). Palin could have drawn a hard to ignore crowd there. It's the last competitive chance for megacrowds before the caucuses themselves.

But will she even attend them, or will she concede that stage to Bachmann, the candidate who's run hurts Palin the most? She's passed on the chance to 'buy' a lot there, which I think means she's passed on a chance to give an official speech as part of the program there. And the deadline to sign up for participation at all is fast approaching. Since she didn't announce today, the next theory of when she might come in is when the deadline expires for filing more junk suits against her as Governor of Alaska. That, IIRC, falls in late July, later, again IIRC, than the deadline for attending the Iowa Straw poll. And that timing makes her seem weak. Coming in later, as did Fred Thompson, carries other problems as Fred's many then fans here will recall. Fred never did find the fire in his belly, or at least never got over being accused of that. True or not, Palin would be accused of the same and would waste time overcoming that.