Cause she is white........It's as simple as that.....  if Obama's teen daughter was pregnant, then not a single so called " hockey moms" would have supported obama because they would  have said that the  future president of USA cannot have family values like that. She supports unpopular war in Iraq, supports gun rights, has zero foreign affairs credintials. She even misued her power. In the republican ads, its said that Palin took no earmarks from federal government and she was always against the "bridge to nowhere" but in reality, she just did opposite in both issues.. So they basically lied in the ads....Despite all this she is popular and as they say she has become a rockstar....WHY? ONLY BECAUSE SHE IS WHITE. Would Obama been popular in such  short peiod of time if he had same beliefs and record as Palin has?? I dont think so.