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Sarah Palin named Republican vice-presidential nominee

On 29 August 2008, at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, Republican nominee John McCain named Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. She was the first woman on a Republican presidential ticket and the second on any major-party ticket, after Geraldine Ferraro in 1984.

Sarah Palin (Wikimedia Commons portrait; person avatar reused as fact cover, land-pack1 pattern).

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On 29 August 2008, at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, Republican nominee John McCain named Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. She was the first woman on a Republican presidential ticket and the second on any major-party ticket, after Geraldine Ferraro in 1984. The ticket lost the November 2008 election to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

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    Sarah Palin named Republican vice-presidential nominee. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.

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  1. 1.cnn.com — sourcecnn.com · verified
  2. 2.npr.org — sourcenpr.org · verified
  3. 3.cnbc.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: palin+running mate · verified

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Factrail. (2026). Sarah Palin named Republican vice-presidential nominee. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/palin-named-mccain-running-mate-2008-08-29

https://factrail.ai/facts/palin-named-mccain-running-mate-2008-08-29

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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