Palin Trounces Biden in Latest CNN Poll

By: RK

More Americans would cast ballots for Republican Sarah Palin than for Democrat Joe Biden if they were able to vote for a vice president independent of their presidential choice, a U.S. poll released Tuesday found. A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll of 1,022 adults taken Sept. 5-7 found that, if voters were allowed to vote just for president in November, the result would be a statistical tie between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, at 49 percent and 48 percent, respectively. The poll's margin of error was 3 percent. In a hypothetical separate vote just for vice president, Palin, governor of Alaska, beat Biden, the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, by 53 percent to 44 percent, the survey showed