A most excellent campaign strategy, so long as the story gets out to other “small towns” across the nation. Even though this has the marks of an urban nation, so much more of it is suburban and still with roots back to something of the Main Street of song and story. Even municipalities of 100,000 like to think of themselves as “small towns”, if only in their dreams.
And Sarah Palin helps them recapture that dream.
Unfortunately this cognitive dissonance extends to Berkeley California and Bethesda Md, which in 30 years changed from small town kinds of places to major urban centers and they cannot deal with it except to rope off access to 2/3 of their streets to the rest of us who pay the taxes that build and maintain them.