They call her the Kingmaker..

.. i'm not ready to go that far in terms of Sarah Palin's endorsements... but when an endorsement from the lady for a candidate who trailed by nearly double digits in the polls, allows that candidate to winning a seven(!)-candidate race by a startling 11 percentage points. 

yes..that's a 20+ point turn around.. among 7 candidates!   SEVEN!   That's "unheard of" to my knowledge in any political race, just from one endorsement.  

Now we'll have to see what happens in the runoff in Georgia governorship.

Of course, it seems that the conservative Nathan Deal who lost out, wasn't too happy about Palin's endorsement.

The former nine-term congressman, who’s got his own big-name endorser in Newt Gingrich, had described Handel as “the most liberal Republican” in the primary. Since Palin’s announcement, his campaign has tried to point out that Handel’s position on abortion is “in stark contrast” to his. And, ahem, to Palin’s. 

Guess which two candidates are facing off in the run-off.  It will be interesting to see if there's an "explanation" for Palin backing the (If Deal is correct) liberal in the room?  

If it's true, one has to wonder why Palin would be backing away from the conservative candidate?   Time to go do some research while it's "downtime" at the office.