11 hours 16 mins ago
AFP
Krestia DeGeorge
But Palin's own course remains the biggest unanswered question.
She has been touted as a possible adversary for President Barack Obama in 2012,
but she has also been plagued by ethics probes, legal bills,
and doubts about her ability to govern.
Palin says she has run up more than half a million dollars in legal fees
stemming from the two dozen ethics complaints against her,
which she calls "political absurdity."
Her supporters set up a fund to help cover the legal costs, but an independent investigator's preliminary report found the fund itself may have constituted a state ethics law violation, according to Alaska news reports.
Her popularity, while unquestioned among a portion of Republican voters, is less assured in the larger electorate, with 53 percent of Americans saying they have an unfavorable view of Palin, in a recent poll.
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