Murray’s Reviews > A Long Time Coming: The Inspiring, Combative 2008 Campaign and the Historic Election of Barack Obama > Status Update

McCain had rebelled in his way by picking a fellow subversive, a sassy, shoot-from-the-hip, self-styled hockey mom who had shown those Big Oil boys a thing or two up in Alaska. It was romantic but also a bit impulsive. It does not appear that the campaign did extensive interviewing and digging in Alaska about Sarah Palin. Some of McCain's aides were a little nervous about the Hail Mary quality of McCain's choice.