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Sarah Palin’s influence on other would-be politicians can by seen by the growing number of women she has inspired to seek public office.

"I think that for a long time people see politicians as part of an elite establishment, and our nation's at a crossroads where the American people realize that the elite establishment has gotten us into a mess," [Patricia] Sullivan [running to unseat Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson in Florida's 8th Congressional District] said, sounding themes associated with Palin.

But, but ... Andrew Sullivan, a homosexual male, knows women dislike Sarah Palin.