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Lexington - Sep 4th 2008 - From The Economist print edition - The most audacious move of the race so far is also, potentially, the most self-destructive. John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running-mate has set the political atmosphere alight with both enthusiasm and dismay. Mr McCain has based his campaign on the idea that this is a dangerous world-and that Barack Obama is too inexperienced to deal with it. He has also acknowledged that his advanced age-he celebrated his 72nd birthday on August 29th-makes his choice of vice-president unusually important. Now he has chosen as his running mate, on the basis of the most cursory vetting, a first-term governor of Alaska.