If you’re interested in seeing where the vice-presidential candidates stretched the truth or just down-right fibbed, the AP has good coverage. Unsurprisingly, both Sarah Palin and Joe Biden managed to squeeze in some deceptions. Isn’t it sad that a whole “fact check” industry has to exist because our politicians simply can’t stop spewing half-truths and [...]

Frank Luntz talks to undecideds… I heard a lot of people in that segment who had really low expectations of her going into this, but fair enough…there’s at least one group who thought she bested Biden. Again, I think all of those folks who thought she’d implode were really fooling themselves. I watched a debate [...]

Still, more voters did say their opinion of Palin improved than Biden (55% to 53%). But given how low that opinion was in the first place, that was to be expected if she turned in an adequate performance. I have no link. Sorry. You’ll just have to trust me. UPDATE: Oh, and 33% said they [...]

For anyone hoping that Sarah Palin would put the final nail in her own coffin, tonight must have been a disappointment. We saw none of the stumbling, deer-in-the-headlight moments we’d seen in her sit-down interviews. Overall, she came off as intelligent and middle American. But just because she held her own doesn’t mean she won. [...]

As I’ve said before, it wasn’t enough for Palin to not fall on her face. And to her credit she didn’t. But to have any effect in this race, she had to demonstrate an almost preternatural sense of what independent American voters wanted to hear. But between her folksy talk and canned answers that danced [...]

She got the name of the top general in Afghanistan wrong. It’s actually “McKiernan.” That can’t be good for people who think she’s inexperienced. Also, it turns out she was just plain wrong when she claimed he didn’t say an Iraq style surge didn’t work. And I quote… “Afghanistan is not Iraq,” said Gen. David [...]

Going in to this debate, the focus was entirely and completely on Sarah Palin. Thanks largely to a series of less than stellar interviews with Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric, the initial excitement about Palin had diminished to the point where polls were clearly indicating that she was a serious drag on McCain’s electoral chances. [...]

Palin had a lot of folksy talk. Biden had real emotion. What did you think?

Here’s MSNBC’s live feed… Add your voice in the comments section below. I may start up another post if we have a ton of comments. Some advice. Since there’s video embedded here, I’d open this post in an additional tab too so you can comment quickly and you won’t have to start up the video [...]

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In the hours before the vice-presidential debate, word from the John McCain campaign is that Sarah Palin will go on the attack, challenging Joe Biden on his foreign policy blunders and his liberal record. I hate to say it, but this is probably Palin’s best bet. She can quite easily spend her time avoiding the [...]

She keeps on stumbling… Doug breaks it down… Palin’s statement is particularly interesting mostly because it ends up becoming a fundamental misreading of what Jefferson meant when he said that the First Amendment had erected a “wall of separation” between the political and clerical worlds — namely his assertion, widely accepted during the Founding Era, [...]

The New York Times has taken a look at the 2006 debates during the Alaska Governor’s race for a preview of what kind of debater Sarah Palin actually is: Not since Dan Quayle took the stage in 1988 have debate expectations for a major party candidate been as low as they will be on Thursday [...]

In particular they talk about Roe v. Wade. This is also the video where Palin can’t recall any SCOTUS decisions… I think she comes off better here than she did in the bailout and Russia questions, but not by much. Jonathan Martin with the appropriate frame… The bad news for McCain: This offers yet more [...]

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“I think she has pretty thoroughly — and probably irretrievably — proven that she is not up to the job of being president of the United States. [...] The story of Dan Quayle is he did probably 1,000 smart things as vice president, but his image was locked in and it was very difficult to [...]

My question: Why? I mean, I know why, but isn’t the VP candidate’s #1 job to vigorously defend their candidate? McCain is at a serious disadvantage given the campaign’s hesitance to unleash the pitbull. And to that point…McCain needs to let Palin be Palin and let the chips fall where they may. The more voters [...]

If you can forget for a moment how incredibly important the upcoming election is, you have to admit that the two vice presidential candidates have provided us with some great entertainment. While Sarah Palin keeps arguing that Alaska’s proximity to Russia counts as foreign policy experience, Joe Biden gave us this golden nugget a few [...]

Obama has officially endorsed clean coal technology, but Biden seems to contradict that in the following video… The Obama campaign later tried to clarify Biden’s statement by saying he was talking about the need for the US to lead on clean coal technology and set an example for China, but that’s clearly not what Biden [...]

Obama – 48% McCain – 47% 3 days in a row and the same spread. More about the history of the race… The underlying closeness of the race for the White House is highlighted by the fact that the candidates have been within three points of each other for 51 of the last 56 days. [...]