4 lessons from the Sarah Palin email release

Now that the media has pored over 24,000 much-hyped pages of Mama Grizzly's emails, what has the whole affair taught us?

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As news organizations finish scrutinizing 24,199 printed pages of Sarah Palin's emails covering the period from her December 2006 debut as Alaska's governor to her September 2008 national debut as Sen. John McCain's running mate, one thing's clear: No bombshells. But the emails do soften the frozen image people have of Palin, says The New York Times, by adding "nuance and depth." Or, as The Washington Post puts it, "vivid new color and fresh details." Is that all? Here, four lessons from the Palin emails:

1. They remind us why Palin was so popular pre-McCain

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