<p>I think it’s pretty close to Minnesota, or North Dakota.</p>
<p>Thanks Tina for giving my Obama-crazed son and his McCain-voting mama something to laugh about together in this election.</p>
<p>Tina Fey was brilliant as Palin. I laughed out loud several times. And true, Phelps is no Manning, but props to him for doing the skit at all! I hope this episode is a sign of the season.</p>
<p>The best casting since Shelly Duvall played Olive Oyl in the Popeye movie.</p>
<p>Carly Fiorina of McCain’s campaign hated it. She called it “sexist” and said that the show did not delve into Sarah Palin’s substance.</p>
<p>Huh?</p>
<p>It was SNL for goodness sake!</p>
<p>Mom2three, you beat me to it! As I was reading through the thread, I planned to post MN & ND … then saw that you already had.</p>
<p>I am guessing Carly Fiorina is missing the humor gene. :)</p>
<p>The only times I’ve heard “substance” mentioned on SNL, it generally involved illegal ones…</p>
<p>Funny, I heard Tina Fey say she hadn’t thought she looked that much like Palin until her children saw Palin on tv and said, “It’s Mommy”. She gave in.</p>
<p>I thought Tina Fey was great. She had Palin pegged. I also watched part of an interview that Palin gave Sean Hannity and he asked her if she watched the skit. She said that she did and thought Tine Fey was “spot on.”, Palin also said that she turned the volume low and didn’t listen.</p>
<p>Talk about the shoe being on the other foot, apparently Sarah Palin once dressed up as Tina Fey for Halloween:</p>
<p>But Palin’s spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt gave the official campaign reply to CBS News: “She thought it was quite funny, particularly because she once dressed up as Tina Fey for Halloween.”</p>
<p>On the accent, I’m going with Minnesota (not that I get there much). I hear similarity to Bobby’s mother on the old “Bobby’s World” TV show (which I watched a lot with DS). Here’s what Wikipedia says about her:</p>
<p>Martha Generic, Bobby’s mother, who speaks with a heavy Minnesota accent and often punctuates her speech with phrases like “Fer cryin’ in the mud”, “gee golley”, “gee darn” and “don’t’cha know”.</p>