20061000 Meet the AK Gov.-elect Sarah Palin Family

Meet the AK Gov.-elect Sarah Palin Family

November 8th, 2006

On Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2006, former small-town Wasilla, AK Republican mayor Sarah Palin, 42, bucked the national trend of “Black Tuesday” for Republicans to successfully be elected to be the next governor of the AK. This introduction to Mayor Palin’s family is one of the commercials that helped put over the top.

It's Governor Palin

Candidate of change resonated with voters

By KYLE HOPKINS, TOM KIZZIA and BRANDON LOOMIS
Anchorage Daily News

Published: November 7, 2006
Last Modified: November 8, 2006 at 05:53 PM

Voters chose change over experience Tuesday night, making Republican Sarah Palin Alaska’s next governor and the first woman to hold the job.

On a night of political upheaval across the country, Democrat Tony Knowles couldn’t stop the wave of anti-­establishment momentum that carried Palin from her small town roots in Wasilla, past incumbent Gov. Frank Murkowski in the primary and into Alaska government’s top job.

With 98 percent of the precincts counted this morning, Palin had clinched the race with 48.7 percent of the vote to Knowles' 40.5 percent. Independent Andrew Halcro had 9.6 percent.

Palin, 42, claimed victory late Tuesday.

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