KD: Right – unless the national media has heard of her, she must be a nobody. She hasn’t even been on *Meet the press*, after all, and I don’t recall her being in the FHM babes list this year either. Clearly she’s just a provincial nobody…

There are different types of prominence, and the type you appear to favour disregards the prominence she enjoys among the many thousands of people who voted for her, and whose lives she affects directly while actually *doing* something, as opposed to almost-chairing a sub-committee or being yet another talking head on NBC.