How a victory would set her apart from other unsuccessful postwar VP candidates.KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin surprised the political world when she announced a run to replace the late Don Young in Alaska’s at-large U.S. House seat. It’s not unusual for VP losers to subsequently win elected office, although in recent decades that has meant simply winning reelection to the job they held prior to being named to a presidential ticket. If Palin wins, she will set an obscure historical marker for unsuccessful postwar VP nominees.
CLEARWATER — More than 30 years ago, when Jonathan Wade saw drugs and crime hit a peak in the North Greenwood neighborhood where he was born and raised, he felt