When New York Governor David Patterson named upstate congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand to
replace Hillary Rodham Clinton as the state's junior senator, he
introduced a political figure who will seem, in some respects, oddly
familiar: a woman of limited political experience, who won a
hard-fought election and is now quite popular among her constituents,
who is just 42 years old and married with children, including an
infant. Just like 42-year-old mother/politician Sarah Palin was when we
first met her back in September, Gillibrand is considered an "up and
comer" within the party, in part because of policy stances that at
times put her at odds with that party's majority (in Gillibrand's case,
she's a Dem the NRA loves, which introduces another parallel to
gun-totin' Sarah).
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