A presidential candidate's choice for running mate is crucial, it can make or break a campaign.  So the question on everyone's mind today is why Palin?  With other more experienced women in the GOP, why go with someone with such little experience and from Alaska, a state with such little constituents? A woman whom he only met ONCE before today.  The answer may lie with her policies concerning Alaska's oil vast oil reserves.  

The debate of oil digging in Alaska has become a hot topic as of late.  Many oppose such a move citing the environmental impact and the preservation of the natural wildlife in Alaska but to big business, naming the oil companies, this would translate into billions of dollars for them. Palin is a staunch supporter of oil digging  and is in support of an oil pipeline going through Alaska.  Coincidentally, or not, just yesterday Palin approved a $27 billion deal with TransCanada to build a 1,715 mile pipeline to carry gas from the Arctic to U.S. markets.

Palin comes into the campaign with negative political baggage, aside from her lack of experience.  She is currently under legislative investigation, accused of firing the state's public safety commissioner for not firing her former brother-in-law. "A legislative panel has launched a $100,000 investigation to determine if Palin dismissed Alaska's public safety commissioner because he would not fire the trooper, Mike Wooten," the AP wrote earlier this month. "Wooten went through a messy divorce from Palin's sister. Palin has denied the commissioner's dismissal had anything to do with her former brother-in-law. And she denied orchestrating the dozens of telephone calls made by her husband and members of her administration to Wooten's bosses. Palin said she welcomes the investigation: 'Hold me accountable.'"

Aside from the fact that she may attract some women voters, Palin's lack of experience, small number of constituents, along with her ongoing investigations, and the fact that McCain only met her once prior to today, makes her the least likely of vice presidential choices.  So why Palin?  It could've came down to her stance on Alaska's oil reserves.  If so, we're in trouble.