# Most telling statistic from the debate.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-telling-statistic-from-the-debate/466292>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 3, 2008, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-telling-statistic-from-the-debate/466292 "2008-10-03T09:43:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-telling-statistic-from-the-debate/466292/41 "2008-10-06T17:59:08Z")

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> [@Jman](#):
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> From CNN: “Another troubling number for Palin is that only 46 percent of the debate watchers said she was qualified to be president, compared to the 87 percent who picked Biden after the debate.”
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> Despite the fact that people graded the debate much closer in terms of who won (though Biden still ‘won’ in their poll by a good margin), this number is huge, and speaks to my real opinion after watching the debate. I have no doubt that there are 3 candidates on the major tickets that are qualified to be President…not 4.

What percentage of people think Obama is not qualified? At least Palin is only running for VP.

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