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“Alaska Women Reject Palin” Rally – 150% the Size of Pro-Palin Rally

Mudflats, a blog by Alaskan AKMuckraker has an article today about a rally – organized by eight women over coffee – held to counter the event welcoming Gov. Palin home from her ordeal answering questions for the first time since being nominated by the GOP for President (er: *Vice* President).  The turnout dwarfed the Pro-Palin rally yesterday.

Alaskan Women Reject Palin was, by this account, the *”biggest political rally ever, in the history of the state”*.  At least 1,400 people showed up, and to put that in perspective that would be akin to 100,000 New Yorker women showing up to a political rally in New York City (we can be fairly certain no-one took the train from New Jersey to Anchorage or drove up from Philadelphia for the event).  This compares to perhaps 1,000 Palin fans who showed up for her event that same day.

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Alaska Daily News also has an article with 50 more first-hand pics.


It’s a good thing I wasn’t tailgating when I saw the crowd in front of the library or I would have ended up in somebody’s trunk.  When I got there, about 20 minutes early, the line of sign wavers stretched the full length of the library grounds, along the edge of the road, 6 or 7 people deep!  I could hardly find a place to park.  I nabbed one of the last spots in the library lot, and as I got out of the car and started walking, people seemed to join in from every direction, carrying signs.

Never, have I seen anything like it in my 17 and a half years living in Anchorage.  The organizers had someone walk the rally with a counter, and they clicked off well over 1400 people (not including the 90 counter-demonstrators).  This was the biggest political rally ever, in the history of the state.  I was absolutely stunned.  The second most amazing thing is how many people honked and gave the thumbs up as they drove by.  And even those that didn’t honk looked wide-eyed and awe-struck at the huge crowd that was growing by the minute.  This just doesn’t happen here.

Mudflats has a lot of pics of the event, here are a few:

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KTUU Alaska also had coverage of the event.

“Alaskan women reached across party lines to reject Gov. Palin today…”.

I wonder if there is an Alaskan Palin popularity poll popping up prior to Nov. 4th?

-chris

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10 comments

  1. ragekage

    150% would indicate there were about 900 pro-Palin demonstrators. The article noted 90. So, it was about 15, 16 times the number of pro-Palin people.

  2. Man, I feel so uncreative in comparison.  I can’t decide which one I liked the best, “Hockey moms stay the puck outta Washington,” maybe.  

    Thanks for sharing this.  I “cycle” about this election through positive and negative moods.  I get to start this week on a positive.      

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