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Tell stories. Even if you don’t have a perfect answer to the question, you can at least tell a good story. Mike Huckabee is the gold standard of “Oh, that reminds me” yarns. McCain himself is also a master spinner. If you can credibly launch into a great tale, however tangential, it pulls the interview back onto your own turf. Plus, it buys you time in case the interviewer asks a follow-up. So when Gibson asked her what she thought of the Bush doctrine, Palin could have said, “Well, Charlie, I was just discussing doctrine the other day with my preacher, who told me a great story about …” You get the idea.
