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Palin’s futile foreign policy stunt

A recent poll shows that Sarah Palin is fighting a losing battle to win the presidency in 2012.

By Tony Hudson

More bad news for Sarah Palin: only 23 per cent of the American public think she is qualified to be president of the United States, and 64 per cent say she is not. One possible reason for the results of this poll could be her lack of experience. She did, after all, serve only half of her gubernatorial term in Alaska. Arguably, one of the areas in which she is weakest is in the sphere of foreign policy.

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