The Sarah Palin Mandela Effect: How America Believes in a Fictional Politician
Dr. Booker DeWitt1 and Dr. R. Sanchez2
1 Department of Paranormal Psychology, Cranberry-Lemon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2 Department of Multiverse Physics, Cranberry-Lemon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract
More than thirteen years after the turbulent 2008 presidential election, some people still believe that Sarah Palin is a real person. It seems far-fetched that people would believe that a gun-totin’, tea-partying, Alaskan governor from the north with a strong midwestern accent and an even more aggressive up-do would have been John McCain’s running mate. Regardless of how fantastical it is, many Americans are confident that she was not only a real person (and not just a Tina Fey SNL character) but she also ran as Vice President with the war hero John McCain against Obama and Biden in 2008 instead of the easy-to-forget Ohio Congressional Representative Jordan Dorf...
