It is not nearly as far from Russia to Alaska as you might think.

In the 1960's a Russian SWAM from Russia to Alaska and he was granted asylum.

RE: Palin
She should not have been allowed to go to that Katy Corick interview where Palin crashed on the rocks.

Normal procedure is for the reporter to give the questions to the person interviewed before. Palin was not granted that-her manager should have demanded it. As I recall the campaign manager was a wall street guy with no political experience. Sadly, we do not really know the people running for office-we vote for a stage presentation and there are no do overs where you/we could see what would have happened had McCain won. .