Might Palins Shaker-Gate Cost McCain in Quaker State?
Could this year’s presidential election be influenced by a missed handshake with a university president? It’s perhaps not that serious, but nevertheless some hard feelings may be lingering from the logistics of a speech Tuesday at Pennsylvania State University by the Republican vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin. Pennsylvania is a key battleground in the presidential race, with both campaigns making repeated visits there in the final days before next Tuesday’s election to try to win the state’s 21 electoral votes. Penn State is Pennsylvania’s largest university, with 40,000 students and a quarter-million alumni in the state. The issue at Penn State began, according to ABC News, when university security officers called officials with John McCain’s campaign to make arrangements for Penn State’s president, Graham B. Spanier, to greet Ms. Palin privately just before her address to a crowd of some 7,500 supporters Tuesday evening at the university’s Rec Hall. Administrators in Mr. Spa
