St. Louis, Oct 3 : In their first public debate yesterday, Republican and Democratic vice-presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Bide, respectively, had one point in common, that Pakistan and Iran posed a threat to the world community and that Iran will be more dangerous if it acquired nuclear arms.

They said that Pakistan’s nuclear weapons were not placed in safe hands.

New York, Oct. 3: Wednesday’s vice-presidential debate between Delaware Senator Joe Biden and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin may have earned the latter some brownie points, but a fact check on what both said during the over hour and a half interaction suggests that there were more untruths than truths.

According to a CBS reality check, the first issue that reveals this was whether McCain voted to cut off funding for troops in Iraq?

Washington - Sarah Palin, the running mate of Republican White House hopeful John McCain, has erased some of the doubts over her fitness for the top job after a fast-paced and wide-reaching debate with Joe Biden, vice presidential pick of Democrat Barack Obama.

Coming into Thursday night's debate, Palin, a one-term governor of Alaska, had faced limited media interviews and exchanges since being thrust into the national limelight just five weeks ago.

Washington - US vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Biden were preparing to take centre stage Thursday night in a highly anticipated debate barely one month before the November 4 general election.

The stakes are high for Biden and Palin to demonstrate both their own competence and to tout the best qualities of their running mates, as they face off for the only time in this election campaign.

Washington, Oct 2: People who know Sarah Palin, and have watched her swift rise from small-town mayor to Alaska Governor to history-making vice presidential nominee, say she needs to be herself in her debate Thursday with her Democrat rival Joe Biden even if it means slipping up or appearing to fall out of step with John McCain's campaign.

“What I would tell her is ... Let Sarah be Sarah,” FOX News quoted Palin’s former pollster David Dittman, as saying.

Washington, Oct 2 : Ahead of today’s crucial vice-presidential debate, a new poll conducted by a leading American daily has found that Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s popularity has plummeted, and that she may now be a drag on her party’s ticket among key voter groups.