Palin talks economic worries in Appalachian Ohio

ASSocitated Press ^ | 10/12/2008 | PHILIP ELLIOTT

[curth]

ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Sarah Palin told voters in southeastern Ohio on Sunday that she and running mate John McCain would bring jobs back to this economically depressed piece of Appalachia.

Using her folksy appeal, Palin highlighted her record as mayor of a city about the size of this small one near the West Virginia border. She said Democratic rival Barack Obama doesn't understand places like this.

"I love 'Small Town USA' because hardworking, good American (families), you just get it," Palin said while standing on a stage with an open barn as her backdrop.

"It's kind of like those simple lessons our parents used to teach us: Don't spend more than you have," Palin said. "It's that commonsense conservatism that is John McCain. ... American just cannot afford another big spender in the White House."

[curth]

No mention of the crowd size, so I am assuming it was pretty big.

[eyedigress]

She needs to hammer home the point that Biden said coal was worse than terrorism. That should get there attention.

[eyedigress]

there=their

[bayliving]

Yeah, their silence says it all......

[WVNight]

Honestly it looked to be about 5-7000. St. Clairsville is a small area. But if it helps they were loud:)

[chris_bdba]

I didn’t get to go St Clairsville is about 2 hours+ away but did see it on Fox and the crowd looked really big. The new chant was “mine baby mine!” which is very good one for this coal producing area as well as PA,and WV, hope she brings it up in those area too!

[GipperGal]

Notice how these pool reports are now going out of their way to report every real or imagined thing a member of the crowd shouts at these rallies? I wonder if they’re doing the same for the Obama rallies? Are they noting all the sexist and offensive things the Obama crowds scream? Because I can tell you for a fact that these people are disgusting in their comments about Palin.