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Most election polls do not include newly registered voters, thus the results are questionable. Plus, who answers their phones for unlisted numbers – less than 20 percent of people, I’ve done calling. Don’t let any candidate, including Palin, become just another distraction to keep voters and the campaigns from focusing on the real issues: the economy and weakened US dollar due to a record national debt, lack of affordable health care, our soldiers dying in Iraq and Afghanistan, lack of an energy policy supporting alternative energy sources (renew the wind and solar tax incentives) and our dependence on foreign oil, and the Republicans wanting to take us back to the days of illegal abortions and no sex education in the schools. Sex education also teaches about the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases which happen to be dramatically increasing in Alaska. Let's encourage all the parties to focus on the issues.

As an Independent voter under 30, I think it's funny how now that McCain has pulled ahead in the polls all the Democrats are questioning the validity of the poll results. Usually, polls favor democrats anyway, and now that they lost their lead, its panic time. I don't think Barack Obama is going to win because a good chunk of his supporters are under 30 and we all know the 30 and below demographic always has the worst voter turn out.