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Despite not being the most talented dancer, Palin has made it all the way to the final round and has been the focus of media attention in a season that has also included Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino and actress Jennifer Grey of "Dirty Dancing" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" fame. Palin's ability to stick around has prompted some incredulous commentators to wonder whether to attribute her success to a tea party conspiracy.
For the Boston Globe's Joanna Weiss, Palin's success on DWTS can be attributed to the same kind of populist appeal that has thus far galvanized her mother's political career.
"Bristol is the kind of dancer most of us would be if we went on 'Dancing With the Stars': unsteady on her feet, learning as she goes, without a creepily perfect Hollywood physique," Weiss writes.
Ultimately, pundits on the right and left can agree that Palin's success on DWTS bears at most a passing relationship to the realities of tea party politics. But so far, Sarah Palin has proven an expert in enlisting the use of non-traditional media in her rise to national prominence, and in a tweeting world, even the results of reality shows could provide a curious metric for national mood.
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