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ZOGBY POLL:McCain/Palin ahead ... BIDEN losing his memory?

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ZOGBY POLL:McCain/Palin ahead ... BIDEN losing his memory?

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The Horserace 9-5/6 8-29/30
McCain-Palin 49.7% 47.1%
Obama-Biden 45.9% 44.6%
Others/Not sure 4.4% 8.3%

Yea! YEAH!

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WHOOPS!
Is Joe Biden telling a fib about his first wife's death? Is he losing his memory? Is he looking for a sympathy vote?

[link to www.insideedition.com]

It was a moment of triumph as Senator Joe Biden was cheered at the Democratic National Convention.

The Senator from Delaware comes to the convention with a compelling back-story: a single dad who raised his two young sons after a horrific car accident in 1972 killed his first wife Neilia and 13-month-old daughter Naomi. However, as INSIDE EDITION's Paul Boyd reports, there is a mystery surrounding the details of the tragedy.

In a striking moment in December 2007, he opened his heart to University of Iowa students. "Let me tell you a little story. My wife and three kids were Christmas shopping for a Christmas tree, a tractor trailer, a guy who allegedly, and I never pursued it, drank his lunch instead of eating his lunch, broadsided my family, killed my wife instantly, killed my daughter instantly, and hospitalized my two sons."

But was the accident really the result of a drunk driver? INSIDE EDITION has learned that some details of the investigation don't seem to fit with what the Senator has said publicly on occasion.

In November 1972, Joe Biden was elected to the U.S. Senate at 29 years of age. He and wife Neilia, a schoolteacher, had three children, sons Beau and Hunter, and daughter Naomi.

The tragedy unfolded on December 18th in the town of Hockessin, Delaware at about 2:30 in the afternoon. Mrs. Biden was driving her station wagon with her three young children after picking up a family Christmas tree.

INSIDE EDITION's Paul Boyd visited Hockessin and the intersection where the accident occurred almost 36 years ago. In 1972, there were no traffic lights and Mrs. Biden pulled away from a stop sign that stood at the corner. According to the State Police investigation, she pulled out into the intersection and didn't see a tractor trailer coming down the highway. The truck crashed into the side of the wagon killing Joe Biden's wife and his 13-month-old daughter. His sons, three and four-years-old, were critically injured.

A distraught Biden considered giving up his Senate seat, but was urged to stay on. His emotional swearing-in was conducted at his son Beau's hospital bedside. Meanwhile, law enforcement officials investigated the accident. Was the truck driver drunk?

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"There was no evidence at the time that was presented to me that the driver of the truck was impaired by alcohol," Jerome Herlihy says.

INSIDE EDITION spoke with Herlihy, who was a Deputy Delaware Attorney General at the time of the accident. He was called in to oversee the police investigation.

"If there had been any evidence of anything there would have been at least some charges of a violation of a traffic law," Herlihy says.

No charges were ever filed. Local newspapers covered the results of the state probe with one 1972 headline declaring, "Trucker Cleared in Biden Crash." Herlihy is also quoted in the 1972 article as saying "…there was absolutely no evidence of drinking."
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Yet years later, Biden would be quoted at least twice suggesting to crowds that his wife and daughter had been killed by a drunk driver. In the aftermath of September 11th, Biden gave a speech to University of Delaware students to reassure them. INSIDE EDITION found that speech archived on Biden's own website in which he told the crowd, "I got one of those phone calls...I got a phone call saying, 'Your wife's dead; your daughter's dead' ... It was an errant driver who stopped to drink instead of drive and hit a tractor trailer, hit my children and my wife and killed them."

Then again, in December 2007, Biden addressed students at the University of Iowa while campaigning for the Democratic Presidential nomination.

"Let me tell you a little story. My wife and three kids were Christmas shopping for a Christmas tree, a tractor trailer, a guy who allegedly, and I never pursued it, drank his lunch instead of eating his lunch, broadsided my family, killed my wife instantly, killed my daughter instantly, and hospitalized my two sons."

The truck driver, Curtis Dunn, died in 1999 at age of 74. According to his family he never recovered from the emotional trauma of knowing he was involved in the accident that killed a senator's wife and child.

The daughter of the truck driver invited INSIDE EDITION to her home for an interview to defend her father's reputation and emphasize that the accident was not his fault. But in the small, tight knit state of Delaware where Senator Joe Biden is enormously popular, the daughter was distraught and decided she wasn't comfortable appearing on camera to talk about how deeply hurt she's been that her father has been falsely portrayed as a drunk driver who killed the Senator's first wife and daughter.

As the country now knows, Joe Biden went on to find happiness with his second wife Jill, who he married five years after the accident. The couple have a daughter, Ashley. Biden's sons from his first marriage have both gone on to have successful careers. Beau Biden is Delaware's Attorney General, and Hunter Biden is an influential Washington lobbyist.

Whatever happened on December 18th, 1972 the terrible events of that day have created an indelible mark on the life of Joe Biden, the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee.

In a statement to INSIDE EDITION today, Biden's spokesman says: "Senator Biden understands the intense interest in him as the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee and has mentioned the accident over the years. His focus has always been on the tragedy of losing his wife and daughter, not on the circumstances that led to the crash. Dredging up the details of the accident now serves no purpose."

Biden's spokesman added that the accident was "painful for everyone involved," including the family of the truck driver.

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REMEMBER, SEN. BIDEN SHOULD NOT BE HAVING MEMORY FAILURE WHEN ADVISING THE PRESIDENT ... NOR ... SHOULD HE BE TWISTING THE FACTS.

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