Will Palin make it to November?

According to today's Financial Times, the future does not augur well for Mrs. Palin:

Mr Ornstein added: “The McCain campaign has been doing its best to paper over the fact that his selection of Governor Palin was an impulsive choice made at the last minute.” Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said: “She may well not make it through until November.”

While most people are gossiping about the would-be-Vice President's daughter's unfortunate situation, the think tank crowd is likely more interested in the continued barrage of damaging opposition research that has surfaced almost immediately about the afore unknown candidate. Today's Washington Post reports that, despite Mrs. Palin's initial reputation as a tough-on-pork reformer, Palin was nose deep in the trough:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin employed a lobbying firm to secure almost $27 million in federal earmarks for a town of 6,700 residents while she was its mayor, according to an analysis by an independent government watchdog group.

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As mayor of Wasilla, however, Palin oversaw the hiring of Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh, an Anchorage-based law firm with close ties to Alaska's most senior Republicans: Rep. Don Young and Sen. Ted Stevens, who was indicted in July on charges of accepting illegal gifts. The Wasilla account was handled by the former chief of staff to Stevens, Steven W. Silver, who is a partner in the firm.

If Sarah Palin was McCain's roll of the dice, it looks more and more like it's coming up snake eyes.