OBAMA:

Undergrad degree in International Relations, Columbia University

Law Degree and Editor of the Law Review, Harvard University Law School

Worked for a year at the Business International Corporation and then at the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Law firm associate, Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, Chicago

Chicago community organizer

Taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years

Illinois State Senator

U.S. Senator

PALIN:

Undergrad degree in Journalism, PolySci minor, University of Idaho

Briefly worked as a sports reporter for local Anchorage television stations while also working in commercial fishing with her husband.

Wasilla AK City Council

Wasilla AK Mayor

Chair of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission

Chair of the National Governors Association (NGA) Natural Resources Committee

Governor of Alaska