Biden v Palin -- when the veep candidates debate tonight, the spotlight will be on a 36-year-veteran politician with a specialty in Foreign Policy vs. a newbie Alaska Governor whose foreign policy comments have been the subject of a week of jokes. Award-winning Middle East reporter Robert Fisk says Joe Biden's foreign policy credentials are nothing to be proud of. Fisk joins professor Patricia DeGennaro of New York University to discuss partisanship, personality and the deadly infantilization of American politics.

Christian journalist and leading expert on the religious right Chip Berlet has a list of questions he'd like Mrs. Palin to answer. Does she see herself as a warrior for Christ in the New Apostolic Movement? Does her support for Israel have anything to do with apocalyptic biblical prophecy? That's what her home church is about, without exaggeration. Harry Hanbury of the American News Project reports on the players in Palin's Apocalypse.

Then, worried about the election? Thousands of volunteers are fanning out over swing states -- you can join them. First for voter registration, then for poll watching and other actions you can take to preserve the integrity of the vote. Our panel of enfranchisement activists: Alternet's Steve Rosenfeld, author of Count My Vote: A Citizen's Guide to Voting; Sam Husseini, VotePact.org; Steve Carbo, Senior Program Director of the Democracy Program at Demos.

Robert Kennedy Jr. of Steal Back Your Vote has a few choice words on why we keep electing who we keep electing. Kennedy is a partner in Steal Back Your Vote, with a free downloadable graphic guide "Six Ways They’re Stealing the Election – and the Seven Ways You Can Steal It Back"

This week's GOT DOCS is from a 19 year old first time director, who started making a film about youth disinterest in the electoral process, and ended up registering 23,000 voters in a peer-to-peer education movement. Visit 18 in '08 to join that movement. It's all in this episode of GRITtv.