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Feb 07, 2011 (Anchorage Daily News - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- For the first time in race history, the start and finish of the Iron Dog snowmobile race will be televised live across much of Alaska. Anchorage's KTUU-Channel 2 will broadcast the Big Lake start and the Fairbanks finish. It will also send broadcast team to Nome for reports that will air on its newscasts. Nome is the only place racers stop for an extended period during their 2,000-mile journey from Big Lake to Nome to Fairbanks at speeds sometimes exceeding 80 mph The station will also offer...

ELMONT -- You weren't going to get Sarah Palin to talk politics on Belmont Stakes Day. The former Republican vice presidential candidate was at Belmont Park to watch First Dude, a horse which was named after her husband Todd, run in the Belmont Stakes.

NEW YORK- Horse racing's final Triple Crown event, The Belmont Stakes, is taking place this Saturday and one of the favorites - for second place - is a horse named "First Dude." Yes, that's First Dude, as in the nickname of the former First Gentleman of Alaska Todd Palin, husband of Tea Party darling and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. A big, long-striding horse, the Preakness runner-up is owned by Don Dizney

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The husband of former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has quit his oil field job on the North Slope. Todd Palin's resignation as a production operator for oil giant BP PLC comes almost two months after his wife stepped down as Alaska governor and shortly before the release of her highly anticipated memoir in a deal rumored to be worth millions. "Todd loved his union job on the Slope and hopes to return," Meghan Stapleton, Sarah Palin's personal spokeswoman, said in an e-mail Friday. "For now, he is spending time with his family." The resignation was...

Alaska's first husband is not scared of you, the cops, or his wife. Get a sneak peak at a week in the life of the ultimate stay-at-home dad, hunter, fixer, and champion snowmobiler right here, then pick up the May issue of Esquire for Luke Dittrich's full, in-depth profile.

Behold Todd Palin's snow machine, dangling from a truck's winch in the icy gray murk of an Alaskan winter morning. The machine is gleaming, new, scarcely ridden. It is ­orange and black and pointy-nosed, with thin, tensile orange steel suspension arms jutting from its sides like the wings on a menacing insect. This is, no doubt, a machine that could inflict a nasty sting, but right now its engine is stilled, and a certain awed quietude prevails on Big Lake, outside Anchor­age, at the start of the 2009 Tesoro Iron Dog, a 2,000-mile snow-machine odys­sey that crashes through the Alaskan...

HERMANTOWN, MINN. - In his first stop Thursday on a swing through northern Minnesota, Todd Palin talked about the Alaska-like chill in the air and his support of gun rights and U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, for whom the National Rifle Association had staged the rally and invited Palin as "special guest." Must excerpt Star-Tribune. See rest of article at link.

Immediately after watching Greta Van Susteren of Fox News interview Todd Palin this week, the leaders of America's feminist organizations bolted to their any-color-but-pink cell phones to discuss presenting Mr. Palin with their highest honor, the Feminist of the Year Award. Seriously? Hardly. But they should have. It is more likey that they are at Home Depot shopping for ladders to send Governor Palin so that she can more efficiently whack her head on the glass ceiling that they are always complaining about. Behind every successful woman there's a husband (Quick! Run and see if Gloria needs smelling salts!) so...

Todd Palin was twice registered with the Alaskan Independence Party ST. PAUL, Minnesota - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's husband, Todd, twice registered as a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a fierce states' rights group that wants to turn all federal lands in Alaska back to the state. Sarah Palin herself was never a member of the party, according to state officials. Todd Palin's party affiliation emerged as the latest issue confronting the McCain campaign. The McCain campaign on Tuesday forcefully worked to tamp down questions about Sarah Palin's association with the Independence Party and with former presidential candidate Pat...

OK folks, here is my report on the Sarah Palin rally held in Carson City, NV on Saturday, September 13, 2008. The day the Palin visit was made, I called the Carson City Republican HQ to get information. The poor woman who answered the phone was tearing her hair out as they had zero information, phones ringing off the hook and people just dropping by. I picked my daughter up from school at 11AM - she's a senior in HS and won't be able to vote in this election (she hasn't forgiven me for having her 6 months too late)....

Alaska's "First Dude" Todd Palin will be "On the Record" with Greta tonight on Fox News Channel for part 1 of an exclusive interview. the show airs at 10 PM ET.

First on TVNewser: While ABC's Charlie Gibson is busy with Gov. Sarah Palin's first interview, FNC's Greta Van Susteren can claim a related "first." She sits down with Palin's husband, Todd Palin, for his first mainstream media interview since his wife was named VP. Van Susteren interviews Palin later today and it will air in two parts, on Monday and Tuesday, on On the Record at 10pmET. She has been anchoring her program from Alaska all week, the only anchor on cable news to do so. Earlier this week she interviewed Palin's sister, Heather Bruce, and she has posted behind-the-scenes...

A moose hunter, oil worker, snowmobile racer and hockey fan, 'first dude' Todd Palin is not a typical campaign spouse.The quiet man standing next to Sarah Palin is nothing like the other three campaign spouses caught in the whirlwind of the presidential race, and not just because he's a man. Todd Palin is a conservative, a moose hunter, an oil worker, a union man, a snowmobile racer, a hockey fan and a onetime backer of Alaskan independence. And in the frontier society of Alaska, his bona fides are not that unusual. He's a "true Alaskan," said Ben Harrell, owner of...

If anything can sum up the charm of Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska and now the Republican Party’s vice-presidential nominee, it is perhaps the nickname she gave her husband, Todd: “First Dude”. It would, after all, take an icy heart not to warm to an oil rig worker and commercial fisherman from the far reaches of Alaska’s North Slope: a man’s man; a beer drinker; a salt-of-the-earth type. As far as the US public was concerned, Mrs Palin might as well have been married to Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski. Adding to the charm were the stories about the...

I can't believe I'm starting this thread. I'm a very happily married (for 22 years) wife and mother, but I'm excited about Sarah Palin as VP but then there's the bonus: Todd Palin! Very easy on the eyes and a real man!   Todd Palin working on machines in Nome  Palin Family, 2007 Gov. Palin, Todd Palin and newborn son, Trig 2008 Alaska First Ladies Luncheon. Former Alaska first ladies and current "First Dude"

THE MAN: He's worked the oil patch, won the Iron Dog and takes care of the kidsThat same week, his wife, Gov. Sarah Palin, was in Juneau requesting more money for the state budget and assuring legislators they'd soon see her plan for a natural gas pipeline that could one day be the most expensive construction project in North America. Then she flew to Fairbanks to wave her exhausted husband across the finish line. It's not just his title as the state's reigning snowmobile co-champion that sets 42-year-old Todd Palin apart from the nation's other first spouses. And it's not...