You can watch it here… Please add your voice in the comments section below and continue to comment throughout the broadcast. Some advice. Since there’s video embedded here, you may want to open up this post in an additional tab too so you can comment quickly and you won’t have to start up the video [...]

The pundits put their two cents in… What do you want asked?

As if you didn’t know already, it’s reassurance on the economy. Again, I’d be surprised if McCain really goes after Obama tonight, but I don’t know if he really has any other choice. In any event, what are you looking for?

There are a lot of options for this (CNN, Current, C-Span), but I’d say MSNBC’s video offering is the best by far. However, there’s a new player in town called Hulu, and if you haven’t been to their site yet, you’re missing out. The joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp. offers hundreds upon [...]

The best analyst breaks it down… Some good points about how hard it’ll be for either candidate to go negative. Especially in this town hall format. And honestly, I think the first one to get really negative loses the debate. Also, those Obama/Biden 50%, McCain/Palin 29% debate numbers are pretty astonishing. But those are the [...]

Writing for the Wall Street Journal, William McGurn reminds us what happened the last time a Democrat presidential candidate promised to cut middle-class taxes. That’s right, Bill Clinton forgot his pledge even before taking office and went on to raise taxes on almost everyone. Is there any reason to expect a repeat from a Barack [...]

As I’ve done with the first prez debate and the only veep debate, I’ll be “open streaming” the debate. So what’s that? Well, instead of “liveblogging” the debate, which is incredibly hard to do and doesn’t really allow me any interaction with you, I’ll just kick off a post and start posting comments below the [...]

This is interesting, and could be something you could do in addition to watching the debate tomorrow night. The topic? What else? Energy independence. T. Boone Pickens, 50-year oil and gas industry leader, will host what hopes to be the largest online rally of Americans concerned about their energy future during Tuesday night’s second Presidential [...]

Editor’s Note: Justin here. I’m very excited to welcome Dan Hill to Donklephant, author of Face Time, a book about the political candidates and how their emotions play a vital role in the campaign. He’ll be penning some editorials about the “facial coding” that went on with each candidate after every debate. Here’s part of [...]

First, the poll shows us that Biden won the debate 54% to 46%. So yet again, he wins in a poll. I saw Pat Buchanan try to argue today on The McLaughlin Group that Drudge’s online poll and Frank Luntz’s focus group on Fox should count too. Well, good luck with that Pat. Now, Palin [...]

So far, not one poll I’ve seen has shown Palin winning. Well, except for the non-scientific online polls which anybody can game if they know how delete cookies from their browser. So who thought what? Obama supporters favored Biden by an 81% to 3% margin. McCain voters declared Palin the victor 76% to 5%. Government [...]

Yep, the whole thing. Of note, this debate pulled in more viewers than any since 1992. Crazy.

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 [...]

It wasn’t even close.

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 [...]

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