History is made once again in the 2008 Presidential Race Friday, as Republican John McCain announces Sarah Palin as his choice for vice president.

Palin is the current governor of Alaska, and she will be the first woman to be nominated for vice president as a Republican, as well as the second to run for vice president on a major party ticket.

Palin's unexpected selection is getting a lot of attention from both sides of the political aisle.

John McCain describes his new running mate as someone who can help him shake up Washington, and people around the nation, including in the Valley, are showing their support for a McCain-Palin ticket.

"Proven to be on the forefront of reforming Alaska's government and fighting corruption within her own party which I think is important," says Virginia's McCain campaign co-chair, Del. Chris Saxman, who also says he thinks Palin will be popular among women voters.

"We'll I've already had a number of phone calls and emails from women across the country who are just ecstatic with the thought that they'll be able to vote for someone on the Republican ticket with the qualities Sarah Palin brings," says Saxman.

However, some wonder if this one term governor and former mayor, who seemed to come out of nowhere, has enough experience be McCains vice president.

"He's loosing the Obama's not experienced role that he's placed Obama in, in many of his ads. His vice president is even less experienced than Obama," says Dr. David McQuilkin, a political science and history professor at Bridgewater College.

McQuilkin also says he doesn't feel Palin has anything to offer the McCain campaign at this point, and that his decision to choose her is an attempt to gain votes from Clinton supporters, which McQuilkin says won't work.

"She's supposedly a strong social conservative, but he's trying to get the independent women, and I'm not sure that this is going to help him," says McQuilkin.

This weekend, Palin and McCain are expected to make stops in a number of battleground states including Ohio and Pennsylvania.

The first woman to be nominated as vice president was Geraldine Ferraro. She was on the 1984 democratic ticket with Walter Mondale.