Key Points
• 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin surprised the political world when she announced a run to replace the late Don Young in Alaska’s at-large U.S. House seat.
• It’s not unusual for VP losers to subsequently win elected office, although in recent decades that has meant simply winning reelection to the job they held prior to being named to a presidential ticket.
• If Palin wins, she will set an obscure historical marker for unsuccessful postwar VP nominees. CONTINUED
Kyle Kondik, Sabato’s Crystal Ball
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