1.0 link 123159 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/rnc-monday-hurricane-sara_b_123159.html ST. PAUL -- The hurricane has been downgraded -- and I'm not talking about Gustav but the Republicans' love affair with Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin, their party's presumptive vice presidential nominee. Unalloyed elation didn't last the holiday weekend. Friday in Dayton and Sunday in Minneapolis, Republicans were telling me, again and again, that Palin had lifted their spirits and hopes both for November and for the future. But the story today that Palin's seventeen year-old daughter is pregnant and soon...

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