Veep Debate - First Thoughts
Biden backed the top of his ticket in substantive ways, and attacked McCain as the opposing VP candidate is supposed to do.
Palin was relentessly folksy and personable, but her attacks on Obama were rote, and her defenses of McCain consisted, every single time, of some combination of the words "change," "also" and "maverick."
She did a great job of rehabilitating her own reputation, and not nearly as good a job of helping the Republican ticket with independents in the handful of swing states still in play.
She has her eye on 2012, make no mistake about it.