And the Winner is - Biden!!
Palin became a non-factor in this election today. You heard it here first. Oh, she did fine. But would I trust her to be President? Not on your ( or my) life. Soon she will be back in
But the real story today is Biden. He became a star. He was magnificent. This man I would trust to be a stand-in for President. He did better than I ever thought he would. He kicked ass today.
And a majority of Americans agree! The Quick Vote on the CNN home page reads right now:
Sen. Joe Biden 70% 138118
Gov. Sarah Palin 26% 52271
Neither 4% 7125
Total Votes: 197514
OK, this is biased because Democrats are actually thinking people who are more likely to be online at CNN! But every nationwide poll says the same thing - the CNN nationwide poll says Biden 51% Palin 36%.
CBS says Biden 46% Palin 21%
I'm pretty sure any other major poll is going to be the same (unless you only poll Repubs!). Here are some opinions:
NY Times
TIME
OK, now for my personal takes:
Biden was clear, strong and Presidential. He stayed away from attacking Palin and kept his focus on McCain - and he did a great job there. He connected most on a emotional level when he talked about being a single father after the accident that killed his wife and infant daughter. Sure, he might have planned to bring that in at some point, but I thought he seemed genuine. As expected, he blew Palin away on all the foreign policy and security issues, but he also did better on the economy, on tax cuts, on what he would do if he had to take over as President - on pretty much everything, in fact. The best thing I can say about Palin was that she did better than in her Couric or Gibson interviews, but that's a pretty low bar. She did not answer most questions directly, didn't identify a single thing that McCain/Palin would do differently (partly because Biden did a superb job of linking Bush to McCain with iron chains!). Biden also found a way to bring in my biggest fear with a McCain/Palin win - the loss of the Supreme Court to the right for the conceivable future. He just did great in every way!
Here's Biden's emotional moment:
Also, watch this - one of Biden's strongest responses of the night, in reply to the billionth reference by Palin to McCain's "maverickness": Maverick, he is not!
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