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Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
CBS Poll: More Uncommitted Voters Saw Biden As Winner — UPDATED CBS News and Knowledge Networks have conducted a nationally representative poll of 473 uncommitted voters to get their immediate reaction to tonight's vice presidential debate. — After the first presidential debate …
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CNN:
Transcript of Palin, Biden debate — WASHINGTON (CNN) — The vice presidential candidates, Democratic Sen. Joe Biden and Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, debated in St. Louis, Missouri, Thursday night. Gwen Ifill of PBS was the debate moderator. Here is a transcript of that debate:
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Poll: Biden wins debate, Palin exceeds expectations — (CNN) - A national poll of people who watched the vice presidential debate suggests that Democratic Sen. Joe Biden won but also hints that Republican Gov. Sarah Palin exceeded expectations. — The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey …
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Michelle Malkin:
SARAH ROCKS! — First, I would like to see all the Sarah doubters and detractors in the Beltway/Manhattan corridor eat their words. — Eat them. — Sarah Palin is the real deal. Five weeks on the campaign trail, thrust onto the national stage, she rocked tonight's debate.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Palin's new plan: Go after Biden — ST. LOUIS — Sarah Palin plans to go on the attack in tonight's debate, hitting Joe Biden for what she will call his foreign policy blunders and penchant for adopting liberal positions on taxes and other issues, according to campaign officials involved in prepping her for tonight's showdown.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Post-VP Debate Thoughts — As with the Obama-McCain debate last Friday, the vast majority of the insta-polls went to the Democratic ticket. Biden won the CBS poll of undecideds 46-21, and the CNN poll of debate watchers 51-36. Independents in the large MediaCurves focus group panel went for Biden about 2:1.
CBS News:
VP Candidates Assess Dick Cheney — CBS Evening News: Biden And Palin Answer Katie Couric's Vice-Presidential Questions … Katie Couric: What do you think is the best and worst thing that Dick Cheney has done as vice president? — Joe Biden: I'm not being a wise guy here ... that I don't know what he's done.
Roger Simon / The Politico:
You betcha Sarah Palin can debate — ST. LOUIS — Sarah Palin was supposed to fall off the stage at her vice presidential debate Thursday evening. Instead, she ended up dominating it. — She not only kept Joe Biden on the defensive for much of the debate, she not only repeatedly attacked Barack Obama …
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Kos / Daily Kos:Post-debate thoughts — Sarah Palin won! Actually …
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Ace / minx.cc:Biden's 14 Lies — Fresh from the McCain people. — JOE BIDEN'S 14 LIES TONIGHT
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:Plouffe protests — David Plouffe spoke to reporters just now …
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:Sarah Palin and Joe Biden Complete Debate Transcript
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain pulling out of Michigan — John McCain is pulling out of Michigan, according to two Republicans, a stunning move a month away from Election Day that indicates the difficulty Republicans are having in finding blue states to put in play. — McCain will go off TV in Michigan …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
McCain fate hangs on three states — ST. LOUIS — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) now must win Pennsylvania, Wisconsin or Minnesota in order to get enough electoral votes to win the presidency, his campaign says. — Those were considered swing states in 2000 and 2004, but George W. Bush lost them both times.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Live-Blogging The Veeps — 10.30 pm. Biden's sobriety and authority and call for fundamental change is both reasonable and solid. It will resonate, I think. As you can read, I began this debate feeling that she was steam-rolling him. She was. But it was a steam-roller coming at you on fumes, not real fuel.
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Susie Bright / 10 Zen Monkeys:
Why Sarah's Sex Life Matters — A lot of people have said “I don't know if it's fair to look at Sarah Palin's sexuality the way people are — I just don't know if it's sexist or appropriate. Why can't we just treat her like a human being?” Okay, I'm going to tell you why it's appropriate for us to gloat and delve into every detail.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
GEN. MCCLELLAN — Needless to say, getting the name of the top general in Afghanistan wrong just shows that Palin is new to the subject matter. But lying about what he said is a much bigger deal.
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The New Republic:
Palin Channels Reagan — As Biden would say: “God love ya' Jon Chait!” — Was it just me, or did she quote Reagan a lot? I don't remember any candidate recalling a former president quite that much in a debate.
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James Fallows:
Your VP debate wrapup in four bullet points — Quick guide: … That's all for instant-analysis. On to the next debate. — Update: How was it, considered strictly as a debate? Of course Biden did a far better job — he answered the questions rather than moving straight to talking points …
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