WASHINGTON, Dec. 3  -- Women believe that Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin opened doors for women in public life, a Lifetime Television poll indicates.

The network's Every Woman Counts poll reported Wednesday indicated that most women think Clinton, who sought Democratic presidential nomination, and Palin, the Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee, moved forward the cause of electing women to powerful positions, USA Today reported.

Eighty-six percent of women said Clinton and Palin candidacies were a step forward in electing a female president or vice president, the poll indicated. Ninety-three percent said the candidacies would either "definitely" or "probably" encourage more women to seek elected office.

Washington, Dec 3 : Alaska’s Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski seems to be gearing up for a possible primary challenge from Sarah Palin in 2010, and advised the Republican Governor of the state to keep her hands off her Senate seat.

In an interview with Politico. com, Murkowski said Palin should think twice before trying to take her Senate seat two years from now.

“I can guarantee it would be a very tough election. If she wants to be president, I don’t think the way to the presidency is a short stop in the United States Senate,” Politico quoted her, as saying.

Washington, Dec. 1 : Palin’s flash emergence on the national stage has left her as well positioned as any Republican to make a serious run for the GOP nomination in
2012, reports Politico.

Yyet waning support from the political center may threaten her presidential ambitions, according to a Politico analysis of public polling.

A Gallup poll of Republican voters released last Friday found Palin atop a field of ten Republicans, including 2008 primary candidates Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, in a hypothetical 2012 match up.

New York, Dec 1 : Tina Fey has no regrets over her impersonation of Sarah Palin on ‘Saturday Night Live.’

"I never did feel that we were mean to her," the New York Post quoted Fey, as telling Barbara Walters on "The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2008.”

"We stuck to a lot of things that she herself had said, and I think there is a very strange double standard because it''s a woman portraying another woman . . .

New York, Nov. 25 : Alaska Governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is now being feted by conservatives across the country for inspiring millions of Americans to fight for common sense and conservative principles.

According to CBS, a conservative political action committee will begin running ads in Alaska and on national television this week honoring Palin.

Timed for Thanksgiving, the ads (there are two 60-second versions and two 30-second ones) feature the PAC’s officials thanking Palin for her candidacy.

Washington, Nov 23 : Sarah Palin, the running mate of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, might have lost the bid to the White House, but offers are galore for her to write books, appear in films and dozens interviews. And, the offers are rated even more than most of the Hollywood stars.

Besides, there also have been offers to host TV shows.

According to an article in the Washington Times, Sarah Palin may have emerged from the campaign politically wounded by questions about her preparedness for higher office, but she has returned to Alaska with an expanded, if unofficial, title: international celebrity.