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CNN:

CNN Poll: Debate watchers split on who won VP debate — Danville, Kentucky (CNN) - Call it a draw. — Forty-eight percent of voters who watched the vice presidential debate think that Rep. Paul Ryan won the showdown, according to a CNN/ORC International nationwide poll conducted right after Thursday night's faceoff.

CBS News:

Poll: Biden takes debate over Ryan, uncommitted voters say — Fifty percent of uncommitted voters who tuned into Thursday night's vice presidential debate in Danville, Ky., said they see Vice President Joe Biden as the winner over Mitt Romney's GOP running mate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., according to an instant poll taken by CBS News.

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Wall Street Journal:

The Bully vs. the Wonk — The Veep's strategy: Show contempt for your opponent. — So now we know what Team Obama's comeback plan was following last week's defeat in the Presidential debate. Unleash Joe Biden to interrupt, filibuster, snarl, smirk and otherwise show contempt for Paul Ryan.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Politico, The Daily Beast, The Week, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and Washington Post

Wall Street Journal:

Noonan: Confusing Strength With Aggression — A draw on substance, but the vice president loses on style. — The vice presidential debate was uniquely important because if Paul Ryan won it or did well, the Romney-Ryan ticket's momentum would be continued or speed up. If he did not, that momentum would slow or stop.

Discussion: BREITBART.COM, Power Line, Weekly Standard, The Moderate Voice, Da Tech Guy's Blog, The Caucus, Taegan Goddard's …, Instapundit and National Review

Patrick Gavin / Politico:

Twitter frowns on Joe Biden's laugh — Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan were the two candidates on stage at Thursday's vice presidential debate, but a third character emerged: Joe Biden's laugh, which didn't escape the notice of tweeting politicos.

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

In Polls, Biden Gets a Hold — News media narratives tend to group horse-race developments into one of the three basic categories: win, lose, or draw. Sometimes, however, a political event falls into the awkward middle ground between those realms. — Thursday night's vice-presidential debate …

Discussion: Salon, Colorlines, New York Times, BillMoyers.com, Washington Monthly, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, Capital New York, Washington Examiner, PolicyMic and The Atlantic Online

Katie Glueck / Politico:

Sarah Palin: Martha Raddatz let Joe Biden run wild — Sarah Palin took vice presidential debate moderator Martha Raddatz to task for allowing Vice President Joe Biden to “run roughshod” over Paul Ryan. — “Really tough format, Sean, for someone like a Paul Ryan or anybody else up against Joe Biden …

Discussion: Reuters, PolicyMic, The Daily Caller, Riehl World News, Taylor Marsh and CNN

Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Biden Bombed — You don't win a nationally televised debate by being rude and obnoxious.

Discussion: American Prospect, Washington Wire, Washington Post, The Jawa Report, CNN, Los Angeles Times, The Gateway Pundit and Wall Street Journal

Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Angry old man yells at Paul Ryan for 90 minutes; Update: CNN insta-poll of undecideds shows tie …

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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Very Quick Thoughts

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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
GOP not smiling over Biden's laughter at debate vs. Ryan

Discussion: The Fix, The Daily Caller, The Daily Beast and Daily Kos

Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
VP Debate 2012: The Real Paul Ryan Is Bad for America

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Washington Monthly, AMERICAblog, The Maddow Blog and Balloon Juice

Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Live-Blogging The Biden-Ryan Debate

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Moderate Voice, Slate, The Daily Beast, New York Magazine, Mother Jones and Da Tech Guy's Blog

Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Thoughts on the vice presidential debate

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Maggie's Farm, Naked DC, Washington Post, National Review and Israel Matzav

Ricochet Conversations Feed: Mollie Hemingway, Ed. : You Want To Win The Debate, But You Also Want To Win The Post-Debate

Reuters:
Joe Biden, Paul Ryan clear the bar — barely

Discussion: New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, BuzzFeed and Outside the Beltway

Washington Free Beacon:
Biden Claims He Voted Against Afghanistan, Iraq Wars

Discussion: Mediaite, Naked DC, Babalú Blog, Weekly Standard, Weasel Zippers, Jammie Wearing Fools, Instapundit and The PJ Tatler

New York Times:

Full Transcript of the Vice-Presidential Debate — The following is the complete transcript of the vice-presidential debate between Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Represntative Paul D. Ryan in Danville, Kr. (Transcript courtesy of Federal News Service)

Discussion: WPTV, ABCNEWS, The New Republic, CNN, Balloon Juice, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post and Paul Krugman

Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:

Raddatz Visited Biden at His Residence in March — White House records reveal that the moderator of last night's vice presidential debate, Martha Raddatz, visited Vice President Joe Biden at his official residence on March 26, 2012. Raddatz is an employee of ABC News.

Discussion: Fox News, CNN, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller, Jammie Wearing Fools and FishbowlDC

Dylan Byers / Politico:
Debate verdict: Martha Raddatz took control

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Andrew Rosenthal / Taking Note:
In Praise of Martha Raddatz

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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:

White House: Obama and Biden were never aware of requests for more Benghazi security — Vice President Joseph Biden speaks only for himself and President Barack Obama, and neither man was aware that U.S. officials in Libya had asked the State Department for more security before the Sept. 11 attack …

Discussion: The PJ Tatler, Weasel Zippers, Weekly Standard, Taegan Goddard's …, Hot Air, CNN and Michelle Malkin

Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:

VIDEO CAPTURED LIBYA ATTACK — Footage from the night of Sept. 11 might be the clearest evidence yet of a military-style assault on the consulate in Benghazi. Eli Lake reports. — Video footage from the United States consulate in Benghazi, Libya, taken the night of the Sept. 11 anniversary attacks …

Discussion: Mother Jones and Balloon Juice

Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:

Biden contradicts State Department on Benghazi security — Vice President Joe Biden claimed that the administration wasn't aware of requests for more security in Libya before the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi during Thursday night's debate, contradicting two State Department officials …

Hollie McKay / Fox News:

Lindsay Lohan switches horses, endorses Mitt Romney for President — She started as a promising child star, and nobody could have predicted how things would go from there. — LOS ANGELES - Four years ago, Lindsay Lohan referred to Obama's Presidential victory as “amazing,” but cut to 2012 …

Discussion: The Hill, PopWatch, GOP 12 and ABCNEWS

John Boone / E! Online:

NEWS/Lindsay Lohan: I'm Voting for Mitt Romney — Lindsay Lohan should have enough issues to focus on in her life (like, say, the blow up fight she had with her mom and subsequent fight she had with her dad) but she has another on her mind: Unemployment. — The Liz & Dick star stepped …

Discussion: Reuters, The Other McCain, Business Insider, New York Magazine, Gawker, The Hinterland Gazette and Hotline On Call

Gene Maddaus / The Informer:

Brad Sherman Grabs Howard Berman At Debate, Challenges Him To A Fight — Think Biden-Ryan was a hard-fought debate? Then you missed the Berman-Sherman brawl up in the Valley today. — Congressman Brad Sherman put his arm around rival Congressman Howard Berman and challenged him to a fight, saying “Do you want to get into this?”

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Influence Alley and Outside the Beltway

Shelby Grad / PolitiCal:
Berman, Sherman get into near-altercation at forum [Video]

Discussion: The Fix, Wonkette, Politico, Business Insider, First Read, Gawker, Hotline On Call and The Raw Story

Nobelprize.org:

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2012 — The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2012 is to be awarded to the European Union (EU). The union and its forerunners have for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.

Discussion: BBC, Telegraph, FP Passport, New York Times, Gawker, Daniel W. Drezner, Business Insider, Outside the Beltway and FT Alphaville

Iain Martin / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
EU winning Nobel Peace Prize is beyond parody, like knighting Fred Goodwin in the middle of a mad boom

Discussion: Spectator, americanthinker.com and Vox Popoli

Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:

At The Vice Presidential Debate: Ryan Told 24 Myths In 40 Minutes — Paul Ryan spoke for 40 of the 90 minutes during Thursday night's vice presidential debate and managed to tell at least 24 myths during that time: — 1) “It took the president two weeks to acknowledge that [the Libya attack] was a terrorist attack.”

Discussion: The Hinterland Gazette, The Daily Beast and PERRspectives