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Palin = liability

As election-day in the US draws nearer the polls continue to come in on a daily basis. Obama leads in every one in varying degrees but the latest NY Times / CBS Poll is interesting because of the result on the choice of Sarah Palin as VP candidate to John McCain

The IHT reports in "Palin weighs down ticket, poll finds":

"A growing number of voters have concluded that Senator John McCain's running mate, Governor Sarah Palin, is unqualified to be president, weighing down the Republican ticket in the closing stages of the campaign, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

The poll shows that 59 percent of voters believe Palin is unqualified to be vice president - up nine points from a week earlier. Fully a third of voters said that the vice-presidential selection would be a major factor in their vote for president - much more than have said so in past elections - and those voters broke overwhelmingly in favor of Senator Barack Obama of Illinois.

In another indication of how McCain's choice of Palin has hurt his image, voters said that they had much more confidence in Obama to pick qualified people to serve in his administration than they did in McCain."

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