“Election Pageantry”

http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2010/04/28/your-morning-jolt-the-woman-who-beat-sarah-palin-takes-aim-at-the-house/?cxntfid=blogs_political_insider_jim_galloway

Maryline Blackburn, the woman who beat Sarah Palin in the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant, is running as a Democrat for a state legislature seat in Georgia. Members of both parties hope the two former rivals reunite for a full-on cat-fight.

In the 1984 contest that led Blackburn to the Miss America pageant, her talent was singing. Palin’s was quitting.