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Daily News sends Palin look-alike out onto NYC streets
Fake Sarah Palin earns a real New York welcome
BY PATRICK HUGUENIN and GINA SALAMONE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Tuesday, September 23rd 2008, 12:53 PM
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'Sarah Palin' enjoys a New York City staple, a hot dog from a vendor.
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'Sarah Palin' takes in the sights.
Daily News
Sarah Palin knocked 'em dead on the streets of New York Monday - and she wasn't even here yet.
We followed her to Madison Square Garden, Times Square, Rockefeller Center and Washington Square Park, where she elicited cheers, waves and shocked stares.
Star-struck voters hounded her for autographs and pictures. One guy yelled: "You're hot! But I hope you lose."
There was just one hitch: Our "Palin" was a fake! She was really a 29-year-old look-alike named Kristy Webb - and most people were fooled.
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The Daily News hired Webb to walk in Palin's patent leather pumps for a day - accompanied by two fake bodyguards - to see what kind of welcome she'd get when she spends the day here Tuesday.
The verdict: Sorry, Sarah. New Yorkers can't wait to meet you - but not too many of them are going to vote for you.
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She was swarmed by flocks of camera-toting tourists at Madison Square Garden.
Architect Ted Bodnar, 42, of New Jersey, stopped her to sign his newspaper, and student Joe Alianello, 19, had her sign his hockey puck.
"She seems nice," Alianello, also from New Jersey, told us. "She seems smart. She likes hockey."
Fake-Palin's clumsy attempts to greet Queens resident Isabel Rijo, 78, in Spanish couldn't squelch the enthusiasm. "I wish she was the vice president," Rijo said.
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In Times Square, tourists craned their necks and aimed their cameras from tour buses. Lehman Brothers employee Leslee Gelber, 39, stopped for a handshake and well wishes.
Our Palin dropped by NBC to try to get a meeting with famous Doppelg?nger Tina Fey, but with no success.
She munched a hot dog at Rockefeller Center instead. Vendor Esameldin Badran of Staten Island told her, "I think you're great. Good luck!" And quickly added, "That'll be $2."
In Washington Square Park, NYU student Matt Hooper, 20, hollered "Obama '08" as faux-Palin passed.
"I'm not a fan of her policies," he told us. "In this park, I don't think she'll be very popular."
Marty Levinson, 68, let fake-Palin take a picture with his granddaughter, but only after he pinned an Obama button to the tot's shirt.
"If her parents see her with anyone who even looks like Palin," he said, "they'll strangle me."
I am the 99%.
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