Is Palin Middle Class?

She got a delay in the deadline for her financial disclosure form with the FEC ... so we'll know for sure Monday.

As to whether she was middle-class during the Governor's race in 2006, this is what the Anchorage Daily News reports:

WASILLA - Sarah Palin and her husband have pieced together a uniquely Alaskan income that reached comfortably into six figures even before she became governor, capitalizing on valuable fishing rights, a series of land deals and a patchwork of other ventures to build an above-average lifestyle.

Add up the couple's 2007 income and the estimated value of their property and investments and they appear to be worth at least $1.2 million. That would make the Palins, like Democratic vice presidential rival Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, well-off but not nearly as wealthy as multimillionaire couples John and Cindy McCain and, to a lesser extent, Barack and Michelle Obama.

-- Martin Kaste

h/t OroroDC, me_crooks-smaller_normal, Sargent, toldorknown

10:12 PM ET | 10- 2-2008 | permalink

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