http://www.newyorker.com/onlin…..-four.html

Taking that a teensy bit further is it worthwhile pursuing whether the earlier poll was conducted by Rasmussen or Zogby?

As for giving up, it’s clearly not in my nature.

Rather than focusing on me, why not reveal the lie told by Rick Davis that is quite likely what has led, at least in part, to all of this.

Palin And The FBI Background Check — Updated

01 Sep 2008 01:52 pm

The Federal Bureau of Investigation did not participate in the vetting of Gov. Sarah Palin and did not conduct a background check as part of the process, an FBI spokesman said today.

The Washington Post reported Sunday, citing an interview with campaign manager Rick Davis, that the vetting process “included reviews of financial and other personal data, an FBI background check and considerable discussion among the handful of McCain advisers nvolved in the deliberations.

“In general, we do not do vetting for political campaigns except as it might regard investigations needed for security clearances,” said John Miller, the chief FBI spokesperson.

The FBI did not participate in a vet, nor did it run a background check of Gov. Palin as part of the process.

Palin might already have a clearance that relates to her duties as governor. But the FBI can’t speak to that, and in any event, those investigations wouldn’t be accessible to the McCain campaign anyway.

Daughter’s Pregnancy and Trooper Controversy Were Revealed Before Pick, According to Campaign Aide

Until last week, Palin was relatively unknown outside Alaska, and as facts have dribbled out about her, the McCain campaign has insisted that its examination of her background was thorough and that nothing that has come out about her was a surprise. “John had access to all that information and made the decision,” campaign manager Rick Davis said last week in describing the vetting process.

The process included what aides described as a full search of public documents and videos of her speeches. That included a review of Alaska newspapers, but not Palin’s local newspaper because aides worried that going through back issues would indicate that she was under consideration to be McCain’s running mate.

Among the things that turned up during the vetting process: her husband’s arrest for driving under the influence more than two decades ago; the ticket that she once received for fishing without a license; her daughter’s pregnancy; and a report that she had supported Pat Buchanan for president in 1996, which she denied at the time.
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Her name, along with others, was submitted to the FBI under a routine inquiry into whether she was the subject of a criminal investigation.

Fellow Maverick Survived http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..02377.html">McCain’s Thorough Vetting Process, Aides Say

By Dan Balz and Robert Barnes
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, August 31, 2008

Rick Davis, McCain’s campaign manager and the person at the point of the vice presidential process, said there was no abrupt change of course in the final hours. Nor, he said, was Palin selected without having gone through the full vetting process that was done for other finalists. That process included reviews of financial and other personal data, an FBI background check and considerable discussion among the handful of McCain advisers involved in the deliberations.

“Nobody was vetted less or more than anyone in the final stages, and John had access to all that information and made the decision,” Davis said. “It’s really not much more complicated than that.”

…. an F.B.I. official said Monday the bureau did not vet potential candidates and had not known of her selection until it was made public.

would be the key part.