Sarah Louise Heath Palin Barack Hussein Obama

DoB February 11, 1964 (44) August 4, 1961 (47)

Born Idaho Hawaii
Raised Alaska Indonesia (age 2-10)

Born & raised as Muslim; Mother from Kansas married men

Personal Sarah Barracuda & Miss Alaska, Congeniality
from Kenya & Indonesia

College Hawaii Pacific College & U of Idaho (1987) Occidental College & Columbia (1983)
1984 NYPIRG
1985 Chicago community organizer
1988 TV sports reporter; commercial fishing Harvard Law, Law Review (1991)
1992 Wasilla City Council University of Chicago Law School Lecturer (1992-2004)
1995 Wasilla City Council Chicago Annenberg Challenge (1995-2002, $110 million)
1996 Mayor of Wasilla (beat 3-term incumbent) Illinois S Senate (unopposed, knocked opponents off ballot)
1999 Mayor of Wasilla (beat former mayor, 2-term limit)
2000 Lost House Dem Primary by 2 to 1 margin
2002 Lost Rep primary for lieutenant governor Returned to Illinois State Senate
2003 Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
2004 Resigned from Commission, exposing corruption US Senate (Jeri vs Jack Ryan sex scandal; Alan Keyes)
2006 Alaska Governor (beat incumbent Rep & former Dem)

Palin has won five hotly contested elections, Obama has never won a competively contested election,
beating a sitting mayor and an incumbent having been picked by the Chicago machine to run in a
governor. She has ten years experience managing one-party district and won his Senate election against a
a city, six as mayor. She has two years experience carpetbagger. In his only attempt to buck the machine, he
as governor. lost 2-to-1. He has no executive experience.
Compiled by Howard Lim / NYS Conservative Party