Debate #2: Who Won Battle Of The “Vice?”
Written by: Tom Sawyer
This from CNN:
“A national poll of people who watched the vice presidential debate Thursday night suggests that Democratic Sen. Joe Biden won, but also says Republican Gov. Sarah Palin exceeded expectations.
The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. said 51 percent of those polled thought Biden did the best job, while 36 percent thought Palin did the best job.
But respondents said the folksy Palin was more likable, scoring 54 percent to Biden’s 36 percent. Seventy percent said Biden was more of a typical politician.
Both candidates exceeded expectations — 84 percent of the people polled said Palin did a better job than they expected, while 64 percent said Biden also exceeded expectations.
How Palin would perform had been a major issue for the Alaska governor, who had some well-publicized fumbles during interviews with CBS’ Katie Couric leading up to the debate.”
I don’t think those results would shock anyone; those results were pretty evident after watching 10 minutes of the debate. I must tell the truth, I only watched about 10 minutes because it was kind of boring to me. I think it was mainly boring because we didn’t get what many people expected: Palin didn’t self-destruct before our eyes.
The McCain camp was trying to get two victories, knowing one out of two wouldn’t be half bad. The first victory was to keep Palin from embarrassing herself and the Republican party. It wasn’t a slam-dunk, but mission accomplished. The second victory at stake, of course, was the debate itself. She may not have won it, but she wasn’t blown out and that is good enough. The baton has been passed back to McCain and he will take it from here.
Let your imagination run wild or look at the obvious issues surrounding both presidential hopefuls and you should be able to see that the vice-presidential candidates are more important that ever before. Ask yourself, who do you honestly think is more prepared to run the country if something were to happen to the president.
Is is Palin or is it Biden?
Tags: 2008, 2008 Presidential Election, debate, election, Vice-President
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Overall, Biden was the better debater. He was more polished and convincing. Although Sarah Palin does not impress me at all, she did much better than expected. I wasn’t surprised at this because of her past performances when debating.
October 6th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
I watched the entire debate. I am NOT, I repeat NOT, a politics junkie. I grasp what I can, and move on. But because of who I am, I will say, to me, Biden was inside the box – polished and convincing, Palin was at least half way out of the box – not as polished and maybe not as politically convincing (and I know politics was the name of that game) – but a “real” sounding person. I would love to see one political campaign where the two candidates were just people; people about the country’s business, but just people. To me, Biden’s shining moment was when he broke down to near tears speaking about his deceased wife and being a single dad. Even the commentator afterward said the exact same thing. Why is that? We want to see real people, not robots with pat answers. His show of human-ness struck a cord with anyone that has a heart! Whether that moment was planned or not, it worked! As for Palin, when have you seen a debater speak to the people with her young child slung across her shoulder like a mom? To me, there is NOTHING more attractive than seeing people be people! Too bad Palin isn’t a democrat… I’m just saying!
Sadly for McCain, it is kind of vice versa here. Of course, Obama is the attracting force for democrats, but Palin seems to be the attracting force for republicans. But by far, ObaBid is much better equipped to run the country.
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