Los Angeles, Oct 5 : The much-hyped Sarah Palin-Joe Biden vice-presidential debate on October 2 has been ranked as the “most watched vice presidential debate ever”, as it was keenly viewed by around 70 million viewers across the US, which was even more than those who watched the Presidential debate between Democratic Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.

Washington, October 4: Analysing how the U. S. vice presidential candidates delivered their ideas during the October 2 debate, a linguist at Saint Joseph''s University in Philadelphia has come to the conclusion that Republican Sarah Palin was using her Alaskan dialect and informal pronunciation to connect to a particular demographic.

Dr. Elaine Shenk, assistant professor of Spanish, also observed that Democrat Joe Biden spoke more formally, believably, to appeal to academics and intellectuals.

Washington, Oct. 4 : Over 73 million people are reported to have watched the vice presidential debate between Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and Delaware Senator Joe Biden on Thursday night, making it the most watched vice presidential debate in U. S. history.

According to the Washington Post, the debate was also the second-most-watched political debate, ranking behind the October 28, 1980, debate between President Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, which logged nearly 81 million viewers.

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.