Palin Debate Flow Chart
Oct. 3rd, 2008 02:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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That about summarizes my feelings about the debate; she did about how I expected her to, spewing talking points without regard for coherency, accuracy, or relevance to the actual question. That'll do fine with her base, but I doubt it did much for many of the actual swing voters still in play (and the post-debate polls are backing that up). Although polls show that impressions of her improved some from this performance, that's not surprising, and it's really not the same as winning, by a long shot (the polls I've seen show impressions of Biden improving more). It just means that people had such phenomenally low opinions of her before the debate that managing not to fail spectacularly was more than they were expecting.
Despite his policies on the drug war, and on a couple of economics-related votes in the past, I really do love Biden. My big worry was that he was going to swallow his foot at some point and give up points, and I don't think he did, so I was happy with how it all turned out.
I think the debate showed her for exactly what she is, and I don't think that many of the swing voters left are so pathologically oblivious that they wouldn't notice her total lack of content, or her attempts to manipulate her audience.
I'd really been looking forward to Gwen Ifill moderating, and I have to say I was disappointed there, though. I didn't want Biden to get more aggressive, but I sure wanted Ifill to. I'm not sure why she didn't do more to make both of them (although especially Palin) actually answer the questions they were asked.
That about summarizes my feelings about the debate; she did about how I expected her to, spewing talking points without regard for coherency, accuracy, or relevance to the actual question. That'll do fine with her base, but I doubt it did much for many of the actual swing voters still in play (and the post-debate polls are backing that up). Although polls show that impressions of her improved some from this performance, that's not surprising, and it's really not the same as winning, by a long shot (the polls I've seen show impressions of Biden improving more). It just means that people had such phenomenally low opinions of her before the debate that managing not to fail spectacularly was more than they were expecting.
Despite his policies on the drug war, and on a couple of economics-related votes in the past, I really do love Biden. My big worry was that he was going to swallow his foot at some point and give up points, and I don't think he did, so I was happy with how it all turned out.
I think the debate showed her for exactly what she is, and I don't think that many of the swing voters left are so pathologically oblivious that they wouldn't notice her total lack of content, or her attempts to manipulate her audience.
I'd really been looking forward to Gwen Ifill moderating, and I have to say I was disappointed there, though. I didn't want Biden to get more aggressive, but I sure wanted Ifill to. I'm not sure why she didn't do more to make both of them (although especially Palin) actually answer the questions they were asked.
