Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama leads Sarah Palin by 8 percentage points in a hypothetical 2012 general election matchup, according to a new national poll.
But a Quinnipiac University survey also indicates that a plurality of Americans don't think Obama deserves to be re-elected to a second term in the White House.
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(CNN) – The same weekend a federal judge ordered the web site Gawker to remove unauthorized excerpts of Sarah Palin's upcoming book, the former Alaska governor released a sneak peek of her own on Facebook.
The upcoming book "America by Heart," which hits bookshelves Tuesday, is being billed as a largely inspirational portrayal of Americans Palin has met since rocketing to national fame two years ago.
But as the 11-paragraph excerpt makes clear, the book is not all together void of politics.
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