[GiveEmDubya]

It's not known for certain if she was on the plane, but common sense would indicate that non-stop charter flights from Anchorage to Middletown, OH (just outside Dayton) are beyond rare. While we don't have any concrete answers, if Palin wasn't on that plane, it would be one hell of a coincidence.

[REDWOOD99]

Or a great decoy. Notice how close we are to announcement time and IT’S STILL A SECRET!!!

[pokorico]

Very interesting. Middletown, OH is a small blue collar town (45,000) with an airport on the north west side called Hook Field. No one would ever suspect a thing. There’s even a trailer park across the highway from it. It’s one of those kind of areas. Jump on that highway (St. Rt. 4) and go north and you are in the south Dayton suburbs. If that is true and she was on there, it would be the perfect way of keeping it a secret.

[ArmstedFragg]

Can you backtrack the flight? It could be the selection team is just coming back from notifying the left out.

[Enchante]

Ironically, she was already in Arizona with the McCain campaign and was flying from there, but this flight from Alaska was plenty meaningful since it was bringing her family from Alaska..... and it kicked off this great thread of hope thanks to FReeper “jokyfo”..... What an awesome thread this was!! What a fabulous night/day it was!!! Governor Sarah Palin, savior of the 2008 election (I sure hope) and maybe even the future of the Republican Party.