As we reach the final few weeks of the election season, it’s time for the running mates to pick several key messages, stick to those messages and avoid any major gaffes. They both need to ramp up their enthusiasm, appeal to the bases and point out the major differences between the two campaigns. The campaign [...]

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As you can imagine, the campaign trail is getting more and more grueling as we enter the final weeks, with Joe Biden and Sarah Palin often traversing several states in [...]

In a time like this, what kind of message are you sending to the American people when you’ll go on NBC’s comedy show, but you refuse to be interviewed by NBC’s journalists?
Still, I suppose this is somehow ironically appropriate given the seriousness of her as a VP pick.
From NY Post:
SOCCER moms and Joe Sixpacks, listen [...]

During the Vice Presidential Debate on Thursday night, Senator Joe Biden had this to say about John McCain’s health care plan:
… do you know how John McCain pays for his $5,000 tax credit you’re going to get, a family will get? He taxes as income every one of you out there, every one of you [...]

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 employees declared Biden [...]

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 [...]

They started off amicably enough. “Can I call you Joe?” were Sarah Palin’s first words. Similarly, “Pleasure to be with you, to meet you,” Joe Biden began. Joe called her “Governor Palin,” while Sarah called him “Senator Biden.” They kept the tone deflected away from each other by focusing on Obama/McCain and cherry-picking points to [...]

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 with her [...]

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 tied.
I’m sure [...]

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.

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 again. Obviously [...]

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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 questions [...]

McCain’s numbers continue to lose steam, but these numbers are still under the national Real Clear Politics average of +5.8% for Obama.

The details…
These results, based on Sept. 29-Oct.1 interviewing, mark the sixth consecutive day that Obama has enjoyed a statistically significant lead over McCain.
He has generally been ahead of McCain since the financial crisis [...]

From almost the moment John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate, we’ve heard the media are out to get her. Because, you know, the media hate average people. How dare they expect the anointed one (Republican model) to make a case for herself or to prove she has the base of knowledge necessary [...]

As I suspected immediately after her convention speech, she only appeals to the base…
The 60 percent who now see Palin as insufficiently experienced to step into the presidency is steeply higher than in a Post-ABC poll after her nomination early last month. Democrats and Republicans alike are now more apt to doubt her qualifications, but [...]

For eight years, we’ve had a wise, Draconian VEEP who took Walter Mondale’s concept of expanding the office of the vice presidency and peppered his legacy with unprecedented powers that ranged as far and wide as the birdshot on Harry Whittington’s face. With his far-sweeping foreign policy arm and his aura of behind-the-scenes mystery, Papa [...]

I tried not to stay in this week because I heard stupidity was contagious. “Stay away from the TV, stay away from the News,” I told myself. “Don’t watch any video that pops up with ‘Katie Couric’ in the title.” Amid the barbecues, the concerts, the Oktoberfests and the debate parties, I couldn’t help but [...]