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As the Governor of Alaska, it was Sarah Palin's responsibility to get some of the tax money extracted by Washington returned to her constituents. It was her job to advocate earmarks.

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There is a significant difference between a small town mayor or governor seeking federal assistance for infrastructure improvements and a Senator using earmarks to pay back political favors.

I'm sure Gov Palin will 'splain the difference to him in the next few days.

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http://news.aol.com/elections/article/obama-rebukes-palin-on-earmarks/153822?icid=100214839x1209105492x1200522068

You can take a thousand statistics and find one that sounds horrible. Barry bases his criticisms on dollars returned to Alaska per person. It would look very bad for him if he did dollars per Alaskan taxpayer and compared it to someplace like Illinois. What if we were to show how much money Alaska contributed to the US vs how much it received?

What if we compared federal dollars per square mile compared with say...Delaware?