Shushannah Walshe,

Sarah Palin and Michael Bloomberg each endorsed candidates all around the country this election season. Joyce Purnick, longtime New York Times political writer and author of Mike Bloomberg: Money, Power, Politics, and Shushannah Walshe, senior reporter for The Daily Beast and co-author of Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar, take a look at how those candidates did and what impact the endorsements may have had.

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Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe, reporters covering Sarah Palin’s vice presidential campaign, give us an account of the popular Alaska governor’s meteoric rise when she was named John McCain’s running mate and the complicated aftermath of that campaign. Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a ...