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.

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 [...]

What’s on your mind? What will happen? Who will win? And why? Talk!

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Well… This “sexist” term is being thrown around a lot these days, isn’t it? But is it accurate? Well, I guess that depends on how Palin feels about it. First, here’s Campbell Brown’s rant on Palin’s press shyness… Hey, who knows…maybe Palin doesn’t want to talk to the press, right? Maybe she wants to be [...]

If you haven’t seen it, here you go. Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four

We know she asked the librarian what the process was to ban books from the public library. We know that the librarian was fired a few weeks later. And Palin rehired her after Wasilla residents demanded it. So what happened? ABC takes a look… So the question remains…why was the librarian fired? Unfortunately we still [...]

I found this bit of historical comparison interesting… Okay, so we have a McCain spokesperson saying on the record that Palin will do a press conference and the Sunday newsers at some point in the future. I’m sorry, but can we get some hard dates please?

In particular, play Part Three and note at the 1:10 mark how a lifelong Democrat and a Hillary supporters praises Palin as a “breath of fresh air” and suggests that she could be a problem for the Dems if she’s on McCain’s ticket. Part One Part Two Part Three More as it develops…

C-SPAN has it. I’m only about 20 minutes into the 1.5 hr debate, but she seems like a very normal politician so far. However, the questions haven’t really been hard hitting, so we’ll see if anything challenging pops up. Anybody want to place bets now that she’ll probably do a decent job in her debate [...]