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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dru" data-source="post: 1285252" data-attributes="member: 3047">It most certainly isn't Palin's party or anything like that but regardless, several candidates that she endorsed who were lagging in the polls/primaries picked up considerable speed and in some cases have won the primaries (i.e. Joe Miller in Alaska) after the endorsement was made.  I would use O'Donnell as an example of this in the DE primary but I am not sure what her poll numbers looked like before and after the endorsement.  To say her endorsements mean jack is not accurate.  She is certainly not single handedly responsible for the results, that's mostly the voters, but by endorsing a candidate she acts to make an unfamiliar candidate, familiar to everyday voters by virtue of the fact that people know what she stands for.</blockquote>