i was watching cnn - they had the little "turn the dial to say who you like or did not" for undecided voters in ohio and it showed women vs men. which is irrelevant because neither elects the president - i would have preferred an overall like/don't like graph at the bottom but...
she did well. she rescued herself from the couric interviews. but as i was watching the cnn undecided voters graph biden topped out many more times than palin did. in general she flatlined - especially on Iraq and other foreign issues. palin topped out ironically when she supported traditionally democratic ideas - anti-wallstreet, anti-corporate, anti-iraq-war, whenever she spoke for change (does she really have such a mental block about the last 8 years?), her ticker went up. i think all of those points might be good for
her but not, in the end, good for mccain or the republicans.i think this will go down similarly to the first obama-mccain debate, no one was particularly thrilled and will call it a draw or a palin upset due to her low expectations but in a day or two or next week the polls will catch up and eventually side with biden, same as the ohio in studio undecideds did during the debate itself.
(plus - don't know what it looked like on other channels but on cnn there was this huge black box right in the middle of the screen between the two debaters - it looked like some kind of black out box for something indecent - what was that?)
* - hey - I sent my initial reaction above to Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic right after the debate and guess what - he quoted a line from it on his blog! anonymously but hey - that's still kinda sweet. look a little more than halfway down on this page :) http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/your-reaction.html
and finally the day after polling data on who "won" the debate:
CNN Biden 51 Palin 36
CBS Biden 46 Palin 21
FOX Biden 61 Palin 39
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