Politico Debate Summary - A Reminder

Throughout the debate it was obvious to me that Biden won, but only looking back on it now do I realize how much better he really was. I mean, I had such low expectations for Palin that I gave her a pass on the fact that she didn't answer something like 10 of the questions! From the Politico:

On at least ten occasions, Palin gave answers that were nonspecific, completely generic, pivoted away from the question at hand, or simply ignored it: on global warming, an Iraq exit strategy, Iran and Pakistan, Iranian diplomacy, Israel-Palestine (and a follow-up), the nuclear trigger, interventionism, Cheney's vice presidency and her own greatest weakness.

Asked which is a greater threat, a nuclear Pakistan or a nuclear Iran, Palin
seemed to be stalling, or writing a term paper, when she said: “An armed,
nuclear armed especially Iran is so extremely dangerous to consider.”

Fortunately, the polls seem to concur. CBS has Biden winning among independent voters 46% to 21%. And CNN had Biden winning among all viewers at 51% to 36%.