Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin John McCain’s VP pick

It has been leaked before the official 12PM ET announcement that the Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin is John McCain’s vice presidential pick to be his running mate in the 2008 Presidential election.

WHO IS SARAH PALIN?

Not too many people outside of Alaska, except for maybe a few journalists and a few in Washington, will know who she is. I don’t know anything about her.

From Wikipedia which already has updated to show her as the VP pick:

Sarah Louise Heath Palin (born February 11, 1964) is the current Governor of Alaska, and the presumptive 2008 Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States. She is expected to be the second female Vice Presidential candidate representing a major American political party (the first was Geraldine Ferraro). After being selected as the runner up in the 1984 Miss Alaska contest, Palin served two terms on the Wasilla, Alaska City Council from 1992 to 1996, was elected mayor of Wasilla in 1996, and ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor in 2002.

Brought to statewide attention because of her whistleblowing on ethical violations by state Republican Party leaders, she won election in 2006 by first defeating the incumbent governor in the Republican primary, then a former Democratic Alaskan governor in the general election.

Sarah Palin is currently facing an ethics investigation for the firing of Alaska’s public safety commissioner, whom she allegedly relieved because he refused to fire Palin’s former brother-in-law, an Alaskan state trooper.

This is a very interesting pick and perhaps they are trying to take advantage of Obama not picking Hillary Clinton as his running mate, hoping to pick up as many of her supporters as they can.

Update:
Here’s the video: