Palin’s Vetting: Five Colleges, None Contacted by McCain

By Ken Silverstein

I’ve heard of the five-year plan to graduate from college, but this is the first time I’ve heard of the five-college plan. Yes, that’s the number of different colleges that Sarah Palin attended—in three different states over six years—before getting her bachelor’s degree from the University of Idaho in 1987.

Federal privacy laws prohibit the schools from disclosing her grades, and none of the schools contacted by The Associated Press could say why she transferred. There was no indication any of them were contacted as part of the background investigation of Palin by presidential candidate John McCain’s campaign.