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NBC, too, ran a couple of Campaign '08 features. Savannah Guthrie caught up with Sarah Palin in Michigan. She fact-checked some of the lines the Republican running mate routinely uses. No, Alaska is not the source of 20% of domestic oil and natural gas. No, she has never visited Iraq. No, she was not a consistent opponent of that Bridge to Nowhere. NBC's issues series Where They Stand moved on to each candidate's platform on immigration. George Lewis portrayed neither as a profile in courage: "The candidates perform a delicate balancing act," was the euphemism he used for waffling, "tiptoeing around an issue that just will not go away." Neither wants to countenance visaless cross-border entry yet neither wants to alienate a crucial swing vote. "When they speak to Latino audiences the emphasis changes."
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