Jennifer Granholm, an emerging national politician who is helping Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. She was also a Junior Miss and a first runner-up for Miss U.S. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) was the Oil Festival Queen in Laurel, Miss., in 1969, if she remembers the year correctly. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) are alumnae of the Cherry Blossom Princess program. Yes, insist her beauty-pageant colleagues - some of whom are in Congress. Wife, mom, governor - former beauty queen? Can that be? But instead of just adding to the emerging image of the Alaska governor, her beauty-pageant past has served to upset traditional perceptions of what women are capable of. This accomplishment has since become boilerplate language in her biography. She captured the title of Miss Wasilla in 1984 and went on to win first runner-up and Miss Congeniality in the Miss Alaska pageant. The rest of America - those of us who did not pick up on those early cues - learned after Palin’s introduction to the nation that she did indeed compete in pageants as a 20-year-old. “She definitely still has the big pageant hair,” says Hilary Levey, a sociologist who has studied beauty pageants. “I thought to myself, ‘That’s a mini-me!’ ” says Kristi Vetri, Miss Maryland 1973. “When the announcement was made, and I saw the first photo of Sarah, I was like, ‘Wow, she looks like a former contestant,’ ” says Miss Rhode Island 2006 Allison Rogers. Sarah Palin didn’t need to wear a sash or tiara for pageant experts to see the beauty queen in her.
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