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Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin accepted her party’s nomination for the position to thunderous applause Wednesday, pulling no punches in her rowdy criticism of Barack Obama.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain, left, hugs Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as the Arizona senator announces her as his vice-presidential running mate on Friday in Dayton, Ohio.

Sarah Palin, vice-presidential running mate for Republican presidential candidate John McCain, and her husband have announced their 17-year-old daughter is pregnant.

On the same day the McCain campaign demanded that the press back off questioning her personal and political background, Palin stood her ground on the convention stage at the Xcel Energy Centre.

Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin speaks during the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., on Wednesday.

The website Daily Kos alleged in a post on Sunday that Sarah Palin had faked her most recent pregnancy to cover up the fact that her youngest child, four-month-old Trig, was actually her daughter’s illegitimate baby.

The Obama camp has been campaigning aggressively in Alaska in an attempt to break the traditional Republican hold on the state in the November election.

The Obama campaign was attempting to court moderate and conservative Democrats at the convention, as well as Hillary Clinton supporters aggrieved by the fallout from a drawn out battle for the Democratic nomination.

A self-styled hockey mom, Palin has the rare distinction being considered both a reformer and right-wing Republican who will appeal to the party’s core base, former Republican consultant Jordan Lieberman told CBC news.

Sarah Palin and her husband Todd released a statement on presidential candidate John McCain’s website saying daughter Bristol will marry the father.

The woman running on the Republican ticket for U.S. vice-president announced Monday that her 17-year-old, unmarried daughter is pregnant.

“Since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves,” she said in the prepared text of her speech, taking aim at Obama, who worked as a community organizer in Chicago as a young man.

“I’ve learned quickly these last few days that if you’re not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone,” Palin said.

“To serve as vice president beside such a man would be a privilege of a lifetime, and it’s fitting that this trust has been given to me 88 years almost to the day after the women of America first gained the right to vote,” Palin told a cheering crowd.

Hip-hop artist Buck 65 and Symphony Nova Scotia perform for a hometown audience.

Democratic candidate Barack Obama has denied that his campaign had anything to do with the web rumours about Bristol Palin and has said he will fire any member of his team who spreads such information.

A Gallup poll released Thursday showed Obama had received a bump from the first three days of the Democratic national convention held in Denver, Colo., three days after polls showed him and McCain in a virtual dead heat in the presidential campaign.

Taking centre stage of the Republican convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul, the Alaska governor, 44, said it would be a privilege to serve alongside John McCain — a Vietnam war veteran she described as “a true profile in courage.”

Obama now holds a lead of six points over his McCain among registered voters, 48 per cent to 42 per cent, a gain fuelled largely by conservative Democrats, Friday’s Gallup poll suggested.

“He is the least experienced candidate for the president of the United States in at least the last 100 years.

Since then, the pregnancy has become the focus of the media spotlight.

Salter and fellow McCain aide Steve Schmidt said the Arizona senator had known about Bristol’s pregnancy before her mother was offered the Republican vice-presidential nomination.

The site used photographs and video to suggest that Palin’s surprise announcement of her pregnancy last February, while she was apparently in her seventh month, was an attempt to avoid the embarrassment of a media frenzy about teenage pregnancy in the Alaska governor’s mansion.

Palin is only the second female vice-presidential candidate from a major party in U.S. history, the first being Democrat Geraldine Ferraro in 1984.

“People’s families are off limits, and people’s children are especially off limits,” Obama told reporters during a whistle stop in Michigan.

But that message became muddled after it was revealed her unmarried daughter was pregnant.

“She’s exactly who this country needs to help me fight the same old Washington politics of ‘me first and country second,’” he said of the first-term governor of Alaska.

“Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned,” they said.

But the effects of both his nomination acceptance speech, which drew a viewership of 38 million people across the United States, and the naming of Palin as the Republican vice-presidential candidate, won’t be known until Sunday, when the next poll will be released, the CBC’s Henry Champ said.

Reporters have repeatedly questioned McCain’s campaign about the vetting process, since McCain had just met Palin once before he offered her the job.