New York, Oct. 7: A new poll of 600 female voters has found that Hillary Clinton is a better mom, role model and leader than Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the first woman to be named to a Republican ticket.

"Hillary Clinton may not have won the Democratic nomination, but she appears to have won the hearts of American women," said pollster Mickey Blum of Blum and Weprin Associates.

"Palin appeals to a much smaller group," the New York Daily News quoted Blum, as saying.

Clearwater (Florida, US), Oct. 7 : Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has decided to continue with her anti-Obama remarks in the run-up to the November 4 presidential poll.

In the latest salvo, Palin told Fox News that she doesn''t know why Obama''s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, is off-limits for discussion, calling his anti-American and anti-Semitic remarks ''appalling.''

Palin also isn''t backing down on questioning Barack Obama''s relationship with William Ayers, the co-founder of the Weather Underground terrorist group.

Washington, Oct. 6 : Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been accused of attempting to dodge giving answers to questions that she is not familiar with.

According to the Washington Post, new research suggests that Palin has acquired the skill of dodging questions without seeming to.

New York, Oct. 6 : Television jurors have started delivering their verdicts on vice-presidential candidates, Sarah Palin and Joe Biden after their one and only debate last week.

Palin, it seems, is taking a bigger beating than Biden because she is a woman and a Republican.

The jurors start with the fact that Palin is only the second woman to be on a major-party national ticket. She is the first who would take office as the mother of five children, the oldest being 19.

Washington, Oct. 6 : Verbal attacks between the Obama and McCain camps have started getting personal with just 29 days to go for the poll that will determine who will be the United States 44th president.

Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Sunday charged Obama with "palling around with terrorists".

Palin said it is legitimate to raise Obama''s association with William Ayers, a co-founder of the Weather Underground, a Vietnam-era domestic terror group.

London, Oct 5 : Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has accused Democratic presidential candidate of hobnobbing with terrorists and appealed to her countrymen not to trust him.

She accused Obama for having links with Bill Ayres, the former terrorist-turned-education professor whose “Weather Underground” group had bombed the Pentagon in the 1960s, and with whom Obama worked on community projects in the mid-1990s.