This is an article that I found on the Star Tribune Website. As you’ve seen, the Vice Presidential debates took place on Thursday evening. After the debate, I found this article which tried to put the results of the debate into simpler terms. The first main idea that the article expressed was that Sarah Palin had done better that most people thought she would, and much better that how she had done in interviews previously in the campaign. The author of the article reasoned that although she was not as good of a debater as Joe Biden, she didn’t collapse in the debate. This, he said, was a positive thing for the Republicans. Then moving to the Democratic side, the author of the article mentioned that Joe Biden tended not to address his arguments at Sarah Paliun, but instead he addressed them directly at John McCain. With that in mind, Biden went and elaborated on all the failed policies of George Bush and how McCain was not a reformer. Moving forward, Biden then made logical statements based on facts about the economy. It was here that Palin didn’t do as well as she could have. Palin tended not to respond directly to the question. No, she would change the subject, and usually turned it toward her job in Alaska or to McCain’s ability to fight a war. On the subject of the war, Biden clearly proved that the war was really in Afghanistan, and Palin was a little outmaneuvered here. All in all, the author responded to the debate well. Giving the win to Biden, he still acknowledged that Palin had done a modest job of holding her own.
Article: http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/president/30087889.html?elr=KArksUUUU
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I have to say that I'm not very surprised that this article came from the Star Tribune, a primarily liberal newspaper. The author stated that the positive for the debate was that Palin didn't collapse. I'd say that this article probably didn't put the debate into good terms. Now I digress, Palin wasn't supposed to do any better that she did. But, that doesn't mean that the only positive for the GOP ticket was that she held her ground. I'd say she had a couple of good points and, on CNN, they had a tracker as to what the "undecided Ohio voters" liked, and they liked a lot of what Palin said. So, this article was well written for a liberal newspaper and I would have expected nothing less from the Trib.
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