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My VP Debate Reaction
Politics Daily — ... That's a maverick! She adroitly proved that she is by far the best talking points-generator to ever grace a debate stage. She did a fantastic job of memorizing her lines and sending them out regardless of the questions asked. Biden did no harm, although he was corrected on the acceptable oil drilling cheer. It's "drill, baby, drill" not "drill, drill, drill". Also acceptable would have been "drill here, drill now". Another Biden gaffe. Early flash polls from CNN, CBS and MSNBC show Biden with the win. AOL is just about tied at this moment ...

Early Snap Polls: Biden Won Handily
TPM Election Central — The first round of snap polls give the debate to Joe Biden, by sizable margins. CBS polled 473 uncommitted debate-watchers, and found that 46% say Biden won, 21% say Palin won, and 33% say it was a tie. While both candidates saw their images improve, 98% saw Biden as "knowledgeable" after the debate, while only 66% saw Palin as knowledgeable, an admittedly high number, given what folks thought of her before tonight. Meanwhile, CNN's poll of debate-watchers found that far more thought Biden did the best job in the debate (51%) than Palin did (36%). ...

Uncommitted Voters Saw Biden As Winner
Taylor Marsh — BY TAYLOR MARSH Joe Biden, father, class act, presidential, who clearly won the debate. "Uncommitted voters" agree: ...

Today in The Nation: Biden Wins, Hands Down
The Nation: Top Stories — ... every subject discussed. He kept the heat on John McCain--where it should be--and forcefully defended Obama when Palin made ludicrous claims about transferring the surge to Afghanistan or "waving the white flag of surrender" in Iraq. I'm a little surprised to see the talking heads on TV talking about what a great job Palin did. Maybe they just want this race to be closer than it currently looks. But most swing voters, in an instant snapshot, thought otherwise. According to a CBS poll , 46 percent of uncommitted voters who watched the debate tonight thought Joe Biden was ...

gov. failin
skippy the bush kangaroo — ... cbs polled 473 uncommitted debate-watchers, and found that 46% say biden won, 21% say palin won, and 33% say it was a tie. while both candidates saw their images improve, 98% saw biden as "knowledgeable" after the debate, while only 66% saw palin as knowledgeable, an admittedly high number, given what folks thought of her before tonight. meanwhile, cnn's poll of debate-watchers found that far more thought biden did the best job in the debate (51%) than palin did (36%). and here's a really key number from cnn. while a startling 84% said palin did better than ...

Debate Wrap Up II
Newshoggers.com — ... CBS polled 473 uncommitted debate-watchers, and found that 46% say Biden won, 21% say Palin won, and 33% say it was a tie. ...

CBS Poll: More Uncommitted Voters Saw Biden As Winner
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... that once again more voters have responded favorably to the Democratic candidate. Forty-six percent of the uncommitted voters surveyed say Democrat Joe Biden won the debate, compared to 21 percent for Republican Sarah Palin. Thirty-three percent said it was a tie. Eighteen percent of previously uncommitted percent say they are now committed to the Obama-Biden ticket. Ten percent say they are now committed to McCain-Palin. Seventy-one percent are still uncommitted. Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/10/02/politics/horser...

CBS Post Debate Poll: Biden Won 2:1, Moved More Uncommitted
TalkLeft — Post-debate poll of uncommitted voters by CBS: Forty-six percent of the uncommitted voters surveyed say Democrat Joe Biden won the debate, compared to 21 percent for Republican Sarah Palin. Thirty-three percent said it was a tie. Eighteen percent of previously uncommitted percent say they are now committed to the Obama-Biden ticket. Ten percent say they are now committed to McCain-Palin. Seventy-one percent are still uncommitted. As to whether Palin is qualified to take over as President if need be: ...

Debate polls
Political Animal — DEBATE POLLS.... Everyone who watched last night's debate came to their own conclusions about the candidates' performances, but there's that other question to consider: what did everyone else think? Reiterating a point from last week, snap-polls aren't the most reliable measurements, but for those of us anxious for data, the surveys at least offer a guide to public opinion. CBS News polled undecided voters, 46% of whom thought Biden won, while 33% thought it was a tie, and 21% thought Palin won. Palin got a boost on the question about whether she's "knowledgeable about ...

VP Debate Polls Show Biden Won
Outside The Beltway | OTB — ... A CBS News poll finds that Joe Biden did better than Sarah Palin among undecideds but that both candidates helped their tickets. Forty-six percent of the uncommitted voters surveyed say Democrat Joe Biden won the debate, compared to 21 percent for Republican Sarah Palin. Thirty-three percent said it was a tie. Eighteen percent of previously uncommitted percent say they are now committed to the Obama-Biden ticket. Ten percent say they are now committed to McCain-Palin. Seventy-one percent are still uncommitted. Both candidates improved their overall image tonight. Fifty-three ...

Early Morning Swim
Firedoglake — ... I don't know about you, but I hit Palin bingo about 3 minutes in. Biden wins. Biden wins, pt. 2. Here's one reason why. General CW now is that Palin held her own. But will that hold? Palin unwittingly ends with, um, strange Reagan quote. Number of times Palin said "maverick" or "mavericks": 6. Number of times Palin mentioned Preznit Bush:1. Sully's got good debate reax as usual. Before debate, Palin says Cheney's ...

Debate Poll Numbers
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Via CBS: CBS Poll: More Uncommitted Voters Saw Biden As Winner Forty-six percent of the uncommitted voters surveyed say Democrat Joe Biden won the debate, compared to 21 percent for Republican Sarah Palin. Thirty-three percent said it was a tie. Marc Ambinder has a few other numbers: CNN’s poll gives the debate to Biden, 51% to 36%…..Frank Luntz’s focus group found Palin’s performance to be most effective…

It’s Biden!
Jules Crittenden — ... under the debate spotlight as critics predicted. Biden, a 36-year veteran of Capitol Hill, avoided direct exchanges with his GOP rival and opted instead to aim his attacks at the leader of the ticket John McCain. He slammed his senate colleague for being “out of touch” on the economy and wrong-headed on the war. But Palin repeatedly poked Biden, smiling as she called him on focusing on the Bush administration rather than focusing on the future, saying: “Say it ain’t so, Joe.” CBS, More Uncommitted Voters Saw Biden as Winner . Maybe, but the devil’s in the details: Forty-six ...

Uncommitted Voters give the VP debate to Joe Biden
culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily — CBS did a poll of uncommitted voters and asked the following : Who won the debate? 46% say Biden, 21% Palin Both candidates had their image improve with the debate but the two most important questions of the night were uncategorically in favor of Biden.  "Who is prepared to be Vice-President?" Before the debate Biden had 81% but his numbers went up to 97% after the debate. Palin gates a passing grade of 55% (that would be a D- or F+) after the debate, up ...

ANALYSIS: Vice Presidential Debate
Comments from Left Field — ... out to be more endearing than any of Palin’s rehearsed mentions of being a hockey mom. Palin seemed visibly shaken up after that moment as well. From my view, I think Biden looked ready to take over from day one, and Palin looked like she was doing her best impression of someone who was ready to take over from day one. The big question is if the American people bought that impression or not. To add to this, it’s important to note that in both a CBS snap poll, and the CNN snap poll taken directly after the debate, by ...

Eat it you East coast elitist beltway types!
INSTAPUTZ — Oh: 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. Well. Clearly, all these independents -- in every major poll -- who picked Biden as the winner were Beltway/Manhattan haters.

There Should Have Been A Swimsuit Section And Maybe Target Shooting-- Or Alligator Wrestling
DownWithTyranny! — Expectations were so low for Sarah Palin's performance last night that the fact that she showed up at all and didn't refer to Dick Cheney as the Speaker of the House or claim that McCain was responsible for The South winning the Civil War has caused delirium in the delusional and deranged fringes of the far right. Nevermind that all the polls found that Biden had beaten her-- let alone that earlier in the day McCain had abandoned Michigan as unwinnable-- the NY Times claimed the Republican ticket survives one test and that ...

10/3: Sarah Vs. Joe
Blogometer — ... down-to-earth. They're blaming her shaky interviews with Charles Gibson and Katie Couric on "the biased editing skills of ABC and CBS" and are arguing that Palin "is back as the GOP's best weapon in Election '08" . A number of conservative bloggers are calling out Palin's critics on the right ( Kathleen Parker , David Brooks ) and telling them to "eat their words" . Meanwhile, liberal bloggers are pointing to the post-debate polls conducted by CBS and CNN as evidence that Biden won the debate, regardless of how much Palin ...

The revolt against the punditocracy
The Reaction — ... , for example, found that while Palin was the more "likable" of the two, and while both exceeded expectations, Biden won the debate 51-36. And CBS, polling uncommitted voters, found the Biden won 46-21. ...

if the debates were the playoffs, the dems take the pennant, 4-0
skippy the bush kangaroo — ... in the first presidential debate, second presidential debate and vice presidential debate, more uncommitted voters said the democratic candidate was the victor. and tonight's results have, by a wide margin, made it a clean sweep. here are the final results of the survey of 638 uncommitted voters: fifty-three percent of the uncommitted voters surveyed identified democratic nominee barack obama as the winner of tonight's debate. twenty-two percent said republican rival john mccain won. twenty-five percent saw the debate as a draw. ...

Polls: Obama Won Debate (Again)
Outside The Beltway | OTB — ... and vice presidential debate , more uncommitted voters said the Democratic candidate was the victor. And tonight’s results have, by a wide margin, made it a clean sweep. Here are the final results of the survey of 638 uncommitted voters: Fifty-three percent of the uncommitted voters surveyed identified Democratic nominee Barack Obama as the winner of tonight’s debate. Twenty-two percent said Republican rival John McCain won. Twenty-five percent saw the debate as a draw. More uncommitted voters trusted Obama than McCain to make the right decisions about health care. Before ...