See Full Video of Presidential Debate - Who Won?
Just in case you missed it…Here is the full video of tonight’s Presidential Debate. Did you watch the debate? What did you think? Who won? Did you learn anything new? Let me know in comments.
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Tonight’s Debate, Latest Polls, and Getting Truth
Tonight’s Town Hall Debate, Latest Polls, and the Differences Between Obama and McCain.
This post will take a look at what to expect at tonight’s debate, the latest attempt to turn the election away from the economy, and links that can help you find out what candidate agrees with you on the issues.
Breaking: Simpson Found Guilty Of Armed Robbery…
Breaking: O.J. Simpson Found Guilty (of all 12 counts) In Armed Robbery. Thirteen years to the day, of Simpson being acquitted of murder…Simpson will most likely receive a minimum of 15 years or a maximum of life.
From The Associated Press…
A court official says the jury has reached a decision in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery and kidnapping trial in Las Vegas.
Court spokesman Michael Sommermeyer says the verdict will be read around 10 p.m. in Clark County District Court.
The 61-year-old former football star and a golfing buddy, 54-year-old Clarence “C.J.” Stewart, were tried on 12 criminal charges in the alleged gunpoint robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers in a casino hotel room last year.
Each faces five years to life in prison if convicted of kidnapping, or mandatory prison time if convicted of armed robbery.
The jury of nine women and three men deliberated more than 13 hours Friday.
O.J. Simpson has been found guilty on all charges in the alleged gunpoint robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas casino hotel room more than a year ago.
Simpson faces a prison sentence of 15 years to life.
Post-Debate Reaction and Analysis of VP Debate
Here is a quick roundup of Post-Debate Reaction and Analysis of last night’s VP Debate. What did you think? Let me know in comments.
[If you missed the debate, you can see it in full here.]
Keith Olberman and Rachel Maddow do a post-debate analysis…
Last Night CNN had an interesting post-debate analysis…
Carl Bernstein on a post analysis of debate…
Fox News thought Sarah Palin did great. Articulate, even…
Morning Joe on MSNBC has a quick analysis of last night’s debate…
Say It Ain’t So Joe????????
What the bloggers thought…
Pamela from Pam’s Coffee Conversation found a great fact-checking video…
They started off amicably enough. “Can I call you Joe?” were Sarah Palin’s first words. Similarly, “Pleasure to be with you, to meet you,” Joe Biden began. Joe called her “Governor Palin,” while Sarah called him “Senator Biden.” They kept the tone deflected away from each other by focusing on Obama/McCain and cherry-picking points to lavish praise on one another. Biden praised Palin for her support of windfall profit taxes and her support of civil unions; Palin praised Biden for once saying he would run on the ticket with John McCain and for his support of Israel. However, it wasn’t always so friendly…
From Robert Shrum at The Huffington Post…
Sarah Palin has experience being a runner-up — which will come in handy in November. Tonight she barely kept up. In advance, the commenteriat almost unanimously agreed on a false measure of this debate. Judging by “expectation” meant that pundits could conceivably award a faux victory if she was half-coherent and modestly informed after a cram session in Arizona. But voters apply an absolute standard, not a low water mark of expectations: With America facing two wars and economic disaster, Americans ask if a candidate is up to the job.
By any rational assessment, Palin wasn’t tonight — and hasn’t been any time she’s not reading a teleprompter. President Palin– the nuclear button, recession, the health care crisis, global warming (which she doesn’t believe in, as she believes in creationism) — well, it simply doesn’t compute. A part in Fargo, yes — that office in the West Wing, no.
Everybody wondered how Palin would do. At least as important, or more, was that Joe Biden did a superb job. He deftly stopped Palin from distorting Obama’s views. He won the tax cut argument– Democrats usually don’t. He won the health care argument; Palin just gave up. She wouldn’t — couldn’t — answer the questions; she wanted to talk about energy, which she’s supposed to know something about, but she even lost on that . Often she didn’t know or couldn’t say what McCain’s policy is. And on foreign policy, she must have been staring out the window when she sat down with Henry Kissinger. She “loves” Israel but can’t discuss mideast realities in one inch depth. She can’t even articulate basic conditions for the use of nuclear weapons.
Palin relied on topline phrases and had little command of facts. Why, she even memorized the name of the President of Iran. But it was mostly blah, blah, blah. At the end, the Obama-Biden ticket is far ahead on the big issues — and Palin’s a parrot repeating memorized phrases, not a plausible vice-president. Biden called her on it every time.
From FiveThirtyEight.com
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.
The internals, however, weren’t nearly as bad for Palin as the topline results. She got a jump in preparedness in the CBS poll, and the CNN found that a large majority of voters concluded that she had beaten their expectations.
Palin’s largest problem, to my eyes, is that she was tangibly nervous for most of the debate, rushing through talking points and canned jokes alike with unsually little inflection. I doubt that this will impact her favorables much — in fact, it seems likely that her favroables will improve.
From What Tami Said…
I’ve had a crazy-making fortnight with a lot of stuff going on both at work and home, so I haven’t been posting as much. I wish I had written the post that was swirling around my head over the last week, so that this morning I could look like a wise and prescient cyberpundit. I knew that Sarah Palin would perform better than her Couric and Gibson interviews would suggest. I knew Joe Biden was unlikely to make one of his trademark gaffes. I guessed that Palin would appeal to those who like bright, shiny and pretty–packaged lines and zingers and “personal connection,” not wonkiness. I thought that Biden might look a little old and dusty next to the Republican’s “breath of fresh air” candidate, but I knew that once he demonstrated his vast knowlege of foreign policy and the economy, most viewers would remember that new ain’t better if there is no “there” there. So, last night’s debate turned out just like I thought. The veep candidates’ performances likely cemented opinions on both side. Joe Biden won, but the game remains unchanged.
Michelle Malkin thinks - “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.
She was warm, fresh, funny, confident, energetic, personable, relentless, and on message. She roasted Obama’s flip-flops on the surge and tea-with-dictators declarations, dinged Biden’s bash-Bush rhetoric, challenged the blame-America defeatism of the Left, and exuded the sunny optimism that energized the base in the first place.
McCain has not done many things right. But Sarah Palin proved tonight that the VP risk he took was worth it.
Also See:
- Outside The Beltway
- Black Voices
- Women Against Sarah Palin
- Crooks and Liars
- Feministing
- Right Pundits
So. That’s what the media and blogger reaction to the debate was. What was your reaction? Who won? Who lost? Who was just annoying? Let me know in comments.
Vice Presidential Debate - See Full Video Here
Here is the full video of the Vice Presidential Debate (it starts at about 34 seconds in). Compliments of the C-SPAN: Debate Hub. What did you think? Who won the debate? Did Palin actually answer any questions? Let me know what you think in comments.
Pamela Lyn Will Be Live Blogging The Debate On Twitter
Our very own Pamela Lyn, from Pam’s Coffee Conversation, will be live blogging the Palin/Biden debate tonight on Twitter. If you would like to join her, here is her twitter link…
I’m not a twittering pro, but I will be following Pamela tonight.
For more information on how you can use twitter to follow tonight’s debate, check out this video.
Pamela also recommends the C-SPAN: Debate Hub for even more debate coverage, I have to agree, C-SPAN is doing a great job with their election coverage.
Also See:
Pre-Debate: What Does Biden Have To Do To Win?
We just did a little pre-debate post on Sarah Palin that you can see here. So, now let’s take a look at Joe Biden. Will he win tonight’s debate with Sarah Palin? In my opinion, he is going to have to tread very lightly, or he could easily come off as a bully. Here is some pre-debate facts, spin, and analysis from the media, let me know what you think in comments.
Sen. McCaskill offers advise to Joe Biden on tonight’s debate…
Will You Be Following The Debate On Twitter?
Here is an interesting video on how best to use Twitter to follow the Debate. Will you be twittering the debate?
Pre-Debate: What Does Palin Have To Do To Win?
Pre-Debate: What Does Sarah Palin Have To Do To Win? How do you think Sarah Palin will do tonight? The bar has been set pretty low, but the excitement about this debate is very high. Here are some facts, spin, and analysis from the media on what they think. Let me know what you think in comments.
Here is a Pre-Debate Analysis of tonight’s debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden.
Oprah=Yes, Ifill=No?
First they were upset because Sarah Palin hasn’t been invited to appear on Oprah Winfrey’s program, even though the latter has openly stated that she supports Barack Obama. Several Republican women’s groups have asked viewers to boycott Oprah’s show.
Now they’re upset because PBS’ Gwen Ifill, who is scheduled to release a book in January which analyzes the new era of black political leaders (obviously including a section on Barack Obama), is moderating tomorrow night’s Vice Presidential debate.
They want Sarah Palin to appear on Oprah. They don’t want Sarah Palin to be questioned by Gwen Ifill.
Hmm!
Let me see, the neocons are trying to discredit both Oprah Winfrey and Gwen Ifill.
What do Oprah and Gwen Ifill have in common?
?????
Still Thinking …….
Still Thinking …….
Ah yes, they’re both members of that evil, elitist, left wing media.
Well, if Sarah Palin is worried about Gwen Ifill being biased she can always ask John McCain to sit in the audience. That way he’ll be able to run up on the stage and answer any questions that he feels are too hard for Sarah to handle. After all, Sarah has been listening to Joe Biden since she was in the second grade and seems to be in awe of his experience.
This is getting to be too ridiculous
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