The Vice President’s role in the Senate, according to Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution:

The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided.

The Vice President’s role in the Senate, according to Sarah Palin:

… But also they’re in charge of the United State Senate. So if they want to, they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes …

Palin gave this answer during an interview with a local Denver TV station Monday, when a third-grader asked her what the Vice President does. The entire clip is below.

New polls released Tuesday suggest Palin is quickly becoming a drag on the McCain campaign. In an NBC/ Wall Street Journal poll, 55 percent of respondents said Palin was not ready to be president. Her support among women has dropped notably, according to a new Pew Research Center for the People & the Press poll. While 36 percent of women under 50 had a unfavorable view of Palin in mid-September, that number had risen to 60 percent a month later.

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