Across the country, people are questioning how big of a roll experience will end up playing a part on Election Day. With each party being incredibly critical of the other and the experience of all candidates being called into question, the topic seems to be on everyone’s minds. The experiences of both Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama and Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin have especially been brought to the forefront. Both are considered to be fairly young and inexperienced with Obama having only served in the Senate for 179 days and Palin as a small town mayor just six years ago. Both candidates have called the other out on their experience with Sarah Palin stating that Barack Obama has never authored “a single major law or reform — not even in the state Senate” during his political career and Obama saying that Palin has “zero experience.” However, it is their counterparts who seem to balance out that lack of experience. John McCain has served in the Senate for 22 years and Joe Biden also has been a senator for 36 years. Such a variance on experience exists between the four candidates that some are raising the question: Would you rather have an experienced president and unexperienced vice-president or an unexperienced president and experienced vice-president? (Personally, I would take the first).