>>Don't you see the distinction between what one has done him/herself and what people they know have done or said?
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>>The "no resume" and "inexperieced" labels have stuck with a lot of voters but again I disagree. 10 years of legislative experience (in a big state, not a lightly populated remote one) is far from no experience.
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>Remoteness is in the eye of the beholder. Would you believe that all those remote Balkan issues were very local to me?

Oh, are you from around there? ;-) HOW COULD WE EVER FORGET?! lol

I meant Alaska is remote from the rest of the U.S., silly. I'm sure there's quite a story in how it became a state.