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'Game Change' Trailer Returns to 2008 Campaign

By Claudine Zap | Yahoo! TV – Tue, Jan 31, 2012 4:54 PM PST

The 2012 race for the White House is well underway. But a new trailer for the upcoming HBO movie, "Game Change," showcases the historic 2008 presidential campaign: specifically, the rise of one Sarah Palin. Remember her?

Here's what we know: In 2008, John McCain picked the Tea Party darling to be his running mate on the Republican ticket for president. The dramatic retelling of events from the nonfiction best-seller "Game Change" takes a behind-the-scenes look at the hockey mom from Wasilla, Alaska.

The TV drama features Julianne Moore as a ringer for Palin, the maverick governor who became an overnight star -- and an endless headache for the campaign. Woody Harrelson plays aggrieved campaign manager Steve Schmidt, and Ed Harris plays a fuddy-duddy McCain.

The clip has the vice-presidential candidate as a loose cannon running away with the campaign. Palin whispers at the end, "I have to win this thing. I so don't want to go back to Alaska." Spoiler alert: She doesn't win the thing.

See the "Game Change" trailer here:

"Game Change" premieres Saturday, 3/10 at 9pm on HBO.

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174 comments

VP. Bite-Me. • Camden, New Jersey • 3 months ago
We all know the carpet muncher, and pole swallower, love this web site, and cant handle a real woman being a woman. sollowers man up......
- Gethier Rambone 3 months ago
  sollowers?? are you kidding me? con's are tards!
KennethJ • 3 months ago
The movie sounds hilarious. I bet she didn't want to go back to Alaska its really COLD there
- Anth Zeph 3 months ago
  Nothing says "COLD" like an un-punctuated run-on sentence! Am I right folks? Come on! Anybody? Anybody?
  
  ....
- Gethier Rambone 3 months ago
  anth pretends to be an english teacher...everybody knows con's are not smart enough to teach.
Gary • Dallas, Texas • 3 months ago
Alaska's version of Kate Gosselin.
- Big Man 3 months ago
  You are right on with that observation.
the dude • 3 months ago
one of my least favorite actors playing one of my least favorite people
somebody • 3 months ago
I wanna see the part where Sarah gets the jungle fever..
Jim • 3 months ago
Great job with the casting! Wow the actors looks like the real people!
susan • Fayetteville, North Carolina • 3 months ago
Why is the media so obsessed with Sarah Palin??
Al Gore ,John Kerry and his buddy John Edwards are gone and forgotten
If there is fodder for jokes, any one of these three qualify...
WHAT IS GOING ON????
- onbalance212 3 months ago
  fear
- A Yahoo! User 3 months ago
  Fear, uh, no. LOL. She's comedy. Good for laughs. And she's still around.
- Monk 3 months ago
  Who would ever want to watch a movie about Fat AlGore (double boring), "Lurch" Kerry (triple boring) or John "the #$%$ Edwards (sick, sick, sick!!!)?
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Shannon • Amarillo, Texas • 3 months ago
Since when does Sarah Palin have red hair and lack-luster teeth?
- Gary 3 months ago
  As though she even has significance. A real "must miss" chunk of air time.
MRKH46 • 3 months ago
YOU MEAN EDDY HARRIS RIGHT ? MR VOLCANO
MRKH46 • 3 months ago
LETS HOPE EDDY KEEPS HIS TEMPER UNDER WRAPS !!!!!
Keenan R • Pensacola, Florida • 3 months ago
they are LYING!! that IS sarah palin lol. i would love to see a picture of her standing next to palin. i gotta admit, i didn't recognize ed harris. he looks so much older. if robert blake wasn't in jail i would have said that's who's playin mccain
anne • Nampa, Idaho • 3 months ago
Remember Palin?......who can forget her........loud, obnoxious, brainless and loud about all of it........
Brad • 3 months ago
What is it about "Sarah" and "trailer" that goes together so nicely?
Latinman • San Francisco, California • 3 months ago
tell it like it is.
WaltP • 3 months ago
This is soo old
Bickle307 • 3 months ago
Notice how they left out the 2/3's of the book involving Edwards, Hilary and Obama?
It'stheTRUTH.Dealwith ... • 3 months ago
The clip under the photo on the main page of yahoo talked about Palin's "meteoric rise".

Where do they get these journalists? Have you ever seen a meteor RISE? If anything, they fall. Not making a comparison to Palin here. Just noting how lousy English passes as journalism these days. Setting the bar rather low....kinda like with politicians.
Alice • 3 months ago
It was bad enough having to live through it once. Can't imagine voluntarily sitting through all that stupidity from her, and her lies, and the hatred from her fans again. (Hey, surely the infamous guy so proud of his stuffed monkey and the Obama sticker will make an appearance, too eh?)

Nope - once was miserable enough, and bad enough for this country. No need to re-live it. As is said in comedy, "Too soon!"
jay m • Bellevue, Washington • 3 months ago
What the eff were they thinking when they picked her for running mate?
Orina • 3 months ago
" I really don't care for Palin she is not my cup of tea "