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Sarah who? From relative obscurity to instant celebrity in a single day, Sarah Palin vaulted into the limelight. She was immediately dubbed both a puppet and a prototype. Which is correct?(ELECTIONS)
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It didn't take long for "Sarah who?" to become the "Sarah Sensation" of 2008. In this age of instant communication and a TV set in every room (and 50 or more in some sports bars), an unknown can become a household name literally overnight. On the Friday morning before the Labor Day weekend, it would have been difficult to find anyone outside of Alaska who had heard of Sarah Palin. Twenty-four hours later, it would have been equally difficult to find someone who had not. And a surprising number had already formed opinions of her, most of them positive.
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