by Mark Silva 
Sarah Palin has a book, Going Rogue.
Hillary Clinton has a book, It Takes a Village.
But on the eve of the release of Palin's memoirs, a day in which Palin is appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show and Clinton is traveling through China as secretary of state, Palin does not have what it takes to be president, most surveyed say.
But Clinton does.
Just 28 percent of those surveyed by the post-Lou Dobbs CNN and Opinion Research Corp. say Palin, the former governor of Alaska, is qualified to serve as president -- and 70 percent say she is not.
Speculation about Palin's potential interest in the 2012 Republican nomination, following her run at the White House with John McCain in 2008, has been spurred by the publication of a memoir filled with regrets about the conduct of McCain-Palin.
At the same time, only 50 percent of those surveyed see Vice President Joe Biden -- "can I call you Joe?'' Palin asked of him during their 2008 running mates' debate -- as qualified to serve as president. And 48 percent say he is not. Which could help explain that 71-vehicle motorcade that President Barack Obama rode into Beijing today.
(Obama seriously considered Clinton as a running mate, his campaign manager has told us -- see the book mentioned below -- but Obama worried about Bill Clinton.)
Yet Clinton, who was favored to win the Democratic nomination for president last year until someone from Chicago had the "audacity'' to hope -- and "The Audacity to Win,'' as campaign manager David Plouffe has entitled his own book -- is viewed by two-thirds of those surveyed as qualified to be president. The former first lady has the confidence of 67 percent of those surveyed, with 32 percent saying no.
Yet Clinton says she has no interest in running again.
As for the rest of the potential 2012 GOP pack, Palin may have some catching up to do with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who won the GOP's Iowa caucuses last year -- and who, it turns out, will also be making his own appearance in Grand Rapids this week as Palin launches her book-tour there. Forty-three percent of those surveyed say Huckabee is qualified to serve as president.
And 47 percent say Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts who also sought his party's nomination in 2008, is qualified.
The Nov. 13-15 survey of 1,014 adults, including 928 registered voters, carries a possible margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
