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From another thread, an Australian editorial:

Blinded by their anti-American prejudices, progressives outside the U.S. mistakenly treat Mrs. Palin as a country hick who has simply roused evangelicals and gun-loving and hunting Republicans. They miss the significance of her nomination. The Governor from Alaska is attracting so much positive attention outside the beltway of American politics—and indeed 10,000 miles away, where ordinary Australians are cheering her on even as their elites pour scorn on her—because she is the real thing. She is a sassy, happy, straight-talking mother of five who has succeeded, not through affirmative action programs or family connections, but through sheer dint of hard work and conviction politics. If Australia’s left-wing elites don’t understand Mrs. Palin’s attraction to middle America it’s because they don’t or won’t ever understand middle America.