Palin only spoke in generalities, and did alot of "pass" that she must think this is a game show..
dacnova
· 1 year ago
at least she didn't say "I'll get back to ya on that, Katie"
ProgressiveTroll
· 1 year ago
I think she bombed. She wants to be Dick Cheney. Has she ever seen his poll numbers??? Does she actually think she can change the Constitution????
therepguy
· 1 year ago
25,894 American say that Biden won (77.4%)
6,613 American say that Palin won (19.8%)
And 939 American say it was a tie (2.8%)
Not a good night for the old man and the republican party!
lilyannerose
· 1 year ago
Well you betcha that is one heck of a result!!
ProgressiveTroll
· 1 year ago
Thank God it's time for Keith.
Chris From Maine
· 1 year ago
biden won.
but where was the abortion question? Did Ifill get spooked by the McCain criticism?
Palin was clearly coached and scripted, and I wouldnt be surprised if her "notes" were complete written answers, for her to recite no matter the question.
I bet a word count would find that she used a few words a lot, and the rest hardly ever.
dacnova
· 1 year ago
most used word "you betcha". Very presidential.
dad
· 1 year ago
met expectations. nothing to be beaten to death.
Biden wins.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Did Palin really talk about our children's, children's children?
It was over in the beginning when she talked down about health insurance, like no one in this country wants health insurance. But yeah, the Cheney stuff and wanting to change the Constitution was a dead ender.
ProgressiveTroll
· 1 year ago
Did anyone else notice how she would talk with her accent and hillbilly talk and then go back to talking seriously. I agree with Paul Begala. She doesn't know anything about John McCain, she's running for 2012.
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
What is the point of a debate when you state right up front you will not answer the questions? It isn't a debate at that point it is a stump speech and an opportunity to jab your opponents. At what point does a moderator intervene and demand answers to the questions.
dad
· 1 year ago
she better not have been referring to me as "joe sixpack"
WDemDem
· 1 year ago
Wow. Ed Rollins thought Palin did better. What a shocker. And that whole notion that she'd really like to have the VP's role expanded is ludicrous. Polls at both CNN and MSNBC show about the same results - Biden 78%, Palin 22%.
Palin, word salad. seemed confident, alphabetic hash. Said nothing. Appeared tough. Caught the base. The rest of us said WTF!
ProgressiveTroll
· 1 year ago
She totally got the guy from Afghanistan wrong, not only what he said but his name.
Wild_Weasel
· 1 year ago
Was Palin on Bennies?
Her machine gun mouth spit out rapid fire cliches, buzz words, patronizing cow dung that was so deep you needed waders. If the winner was the person who burped out more words, she edged out Biden. But if the winner was the person with the best answers, the most direct answers, the most Vice Presidential answers, clearly it was Biden.
But Biden shined! His calm, direct answers gave him the superior score in this debate.
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
Palin's "white flag of surrender" crack was particularly lousy.
Steve_in_CNJ
· 1 year ago
what about "john knows how to win wars". oh yeah? give us an example.
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
John knows how to crash airplanes.
evan_la
· 1 year ago
Three times no less
houstonray
· 1 year ago
You know, on CNN they have that little people meter thing and when she said that, her lines plummeted into the negative...
Wild_Weasel
· 1 year ago
Hey Palin: I know when someone is blowing smoke up my ass.
Coming Undone
· 1 year ago
Why was Palin's baby out there on stage? This woman is using her children as props for this election.
Steve_in_CNJ
· 1 year ago
it's not really a debate unless the moderator follows up. ifill was utterly useless.
WDemDem
· 1 year ago
She embarrassed herself and lost her journalistic credibility. It was horrible.
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
I intensely dislike Palin's use of mocking to make a point over and over. No substance just mocking.
KISSman
· 1 year ago
Clearly, the bar was SOOOO incredibly low and this seemed to make every conservative and television pundit giddy. She wasn't awful, but because she was OK, she looks great to all these people. She wasn't great. She wouldn't answer questions. She seemed caught speechless a couple of times. She said a general's name wrong a couple of times. And where does McCain/Palin stand on deregulation? We'll never know -- she wouldn't talk about it. Even if she said the right things sometimes, it was CLEAR that it was mostly rehearsed material. And finally, almost everyone is ignoring Joe Biden's very good performance. That's the biggest crime of all.
Gridlock
· 1 year ago
im sorry, that was a flop for Palin
if you cant or refuse to answer questions, YOU FAIL
god, why is that so hard to understand! It's like an exam.. if you dont answer the questions, YOU DONT F#CKING PASS.
And did she have frigging crib notes up there? I saw her flipping through something!@
henrythefifth
· 1 year ago
Ifill did suck big time. They might as well of had a robot moderating.
LKN
· 1 year ago
My family and I got so tired of the fake pigeon English that we let out collective groans whenever Palin spoke. It was like we were about to be treated to reruns of "Beverly Hillbillies"
Glad Biden got in the quip about Spain.
ProgressiveTroll
· 1 year ago
I was really glad about the Spain part as well. It clearly proved that with McCain/Palin, it's Bush/Cheney all over again. She reinforced that over and over and over.
okojo
· 1 year ago
I am not a big fan of who "won" or who "lost"as much as what policies were more believable and how much learning or enlightenment came from each candidate.
Palin did better than the Couric interviews. However her performance was still pathetic. She dodged questions or answer in banal platitudes. Biden, I thought was much more multi faceted, and knew nuances, even though he could had been speaking in 1964 Democratic convention, that I kind of worry would turn off some independents. Myself, I like the more liberal, the better.
However, Palin clearly showed she was clearly not ready for this position. She made mistakes, many of them will be dissected, especially the McKiernan error, which is a big, big mistake, basically lying what the commander of US forces of Afghanistan stated, but I hate to say this, she has TV presence, even though she wasn't making sense much of the time.
Biden was much more persuasive.
Steve_in_CNJ
· 1 year ago
she does have tv presence. i imagined her bantering with the anchor guy on my local news show. maybe she should check if vanna white is retiring soon.
Chris From Maine
· 1 year ago
her answers were so obviously scripted and rehearsed, she wasnt sarah palin, she was a woman playing the role of "sarah palin".
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
So Palin proved she can deliver verbiage.
Biden was the more insightful and substantial.
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
Fairly good interrator reliability in the scorecard. Biden won.
Wild_Weasel
· 1 year ago
PALIN WINS! Sarah Palin is the clear winner of the Merriam-Webster award for verbal diarrhea.
triple7s
· 1 year ago
I hope the dems run ads with PALIN saying she wants MORE POWER for the V.P. office. That could be some SCARY shit.
Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood)
· 1 year ago
I so fucking hate blogger it is such a useless app in Firefox!
Same old story......on November 5th, you bunch of sorry liberals are going to wake up and wonder what happened.....just practice saying "President McCain"......
Each of you live in a dream world anyway - you think we had a President Gore and a President Kerry....
Funny how polls 5 weeks out work......they change......and the Good Guys win....
okojo
· 1 year ago
Sorry, the independents are the Kingmakers of Presidential politics and they are deciding that they want a change of direction.
Basically as Edwin Edwards said about winning the governorship, he could only lose if he was found in bed with a dead woman or a live boy, Obama is getting into that territory.
All indicators that the Dems are going to win big, with the help of independents, the same formula that change Congress in 2006.
This election is a referendum of eight years of the Bush Administration as much as it is about McCain.
Anyway, a good weather indicator is if Joe Lieberman believes strongly on something, go against it, and you will win.
dacnova
· 1 year ago
What does the graph mean? There's not ALT text to explain the details. Shame on you, John, for hosting a site that isn't accessible to the vision impaired. And to mostly fully sighted Dems that cvn't read images at a glance.
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6,613 American say that Palin won (19.8%)
And 939 American say it was a tie (2.8%)
Not a good night for the old man and the republican party!
but where was the abortion question? Did Ifill get spooked by the McCain criticism?
Palin was clearly coached and scripted, and I wouldnt be surprised if her "notes" were complete written answers, for her to recite no matter the question.
I bet a word count would find that she used a few words a lot, and the rest hardly ever.
nothing to be beaten to death.
Biden wins.
Isn't that a Moody Blues album?
GAME OVER.
http://elections.foxnews.com/
Her machine gun mouth spit out rapid fire cliches, buzz words, patronizing cow dung that was so deep you needed waders. If the winner was the person who burped out more words, she edged out Biden. But if the winner was the person with the best answers, the most direct answers, the most Vice Presidential answers, clearly it was Biden.
But Biden shined! His calm, direct answers gave him the superior score in this debate.
if you cant or refuse to answer questions, YOU FAIL
god, why is that so hard to understand! It's like an exam.. if you dont answer the questions, YOU DONT F#CKING PASS.
And did she have frigging crib notes up there? I saw her flipping through something!@
Glad Biden got in the quip about Spain.
Palin did better than the Couric interviews. However her performance was still pathetic. She dodged questions or answer in banal platitudes. Biden, I thought was much more multi faceted, and knew nuances, even though he could had been speaking in 1964 Democratic convention, that I kind of worry would turn off some independents. Myself, I like the more liberal, the better.
However, Palin clearly showed she was clearly not ready for this position. She made mistakes, many of them will be dissected, especially the McKiernan error, which is a big, big mistake, basically lying what the commander of US forces of Afghanistan stated, but I hate to say this, she has TV presence, even though she wasn't making sense much of the time.
Biden was much more persuasive.
Biden was the more insightful and substantial.
Sarah Palin is the clear winner of the Merriam-Webster award for verbal diarrhea.
Each of you live in a dream world anyway - you think we had a President Gore and a President Kerry....
Funny how polls 5 weeks out work......they change......and the Good Guys win....
Basically as Edwin Edwards said about winning the governorship, he could only lose if he was found in bed with a dead woman or a live boy, Obama is getting into that territory.
All indicators that the Dems are going to win big, with the help of independents, the same formula that change Congress in 2006.
This election is a referendum of eight years of the Bush Administration as much as it is about McCain.
Anyway, a good weather indicator is if Joe Lieberman believes strongly on something, go against it, and you will win.