From The Sunday Times September 28, 2008 McCain camp prays for Palin wedding The marriage of the vice-presidential candidateâs pregnant teenage daughter could lift a flagging campaign Sarah Baxter in Washington In an election campaign notable for its surprises, Sarah Palin, the Republican vice- presidential candidate, may be about to spring a new one â the wedding of her pregnant teenage daughter to her ice-hockey-playing fiancé before the November 4 election. Inside John McCainâs campaign the expectation is growing that there will be a popularity boosting pre-election wedding in Alaska between Bristol Palin, 17, and Levi Johnston, 18, her schoolmate and father of her baby. âIt would be fantastic,â said a McCain insider. âYou would have every TV camera there. The entire country would be watching. It would shut down the race for a week.â .... The [father] wrote on his MySpace page he was a âf****** redneckâ and stated, âI donât want kids.â But a McCain insider predicted he would marry Bristol whenever his future mother-in-law wanted. âItâs a shotgun wedding.... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4837644.ece