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After reading some of the comments above, I am surprised we were watching the same debate. Given that there is no objective means to determine who won, other than polls where the participants respond based on their gut feelings, I look at it in terms of the most important issues to me. regardless about how you feel Palin answered or avoided certain questions - she had major themes that she wanted to communicate and she more clearly got her points on the table. Bidden's main theme was that McCain is Bush III and McCain is no maverick. As Palin pointed out this was looking backward and I agree. Also, Bidden failed to address the issue of Obama being in lock-step with his party 96% while stating the he and Obama would be able to work "across the isle" and are mavericks themselves. In my view, I have not seen Obama take a stand against his party on any issue, nor have I seen Bidden do it. Both McCain and Palin have. McCain is one of the Senators with the highest rate of voting against his party.
Then Palin raised a few important points that Bidden left dangling. He never addressed the consequences of failure in Iraq if we withdraw prior to victory. And, He failed to reconcile his problems with Obama during the primary given his current position of being in complete support of Obama.
In my view of debates, making lots and lots of small points while leaving the biggest points unaddressed indicates a poor debate performance.
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