From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point.

Sarah Palin, preparing for prime time.

Hello again, I'm Mormon Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

A daily look at the issues, Americans care about most, reporting today from the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.

The governor of Alaska has been under wraps and under intense preparation for tonight's

address to the convention and the rest of the world. A former aide to President Bush says

she'll be either a wild success or a spectacular failure.

We'll hear more today on her path to the vice presidential nomination and about last night's speech by the Democrats' former nominee, Joe Lieberman.

What are the themes of John McCain's convention?

What about the economy?

And what about George W. Bush, who got eight minutes of the delegates' time.

First, here's the news.

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hear back with To the Poet. John McCain's conventions back on track after last night's

barn-burning speech by former Senator Fred Thompson and the endorsement of McCain by Senator

Joe Lieberman, who was the Democrat's

vice presidential nominee just eight years ago. Thompson focused on McCain's experience as a

POW in Vietnam. Whenever John was returned to his cell, walking if he could, dragged if he

couldn't, as he passed his other fellow POWs,

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