10-03-2008, 06:33 PM
<!--emo&:cool--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/specool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='specool.gif' /><!--endemo--> Expectations low, Palin scores in debate
Contest with Biden allows her to get past embarrassing moments
Women react to VP debate
Oct. 3: One group watched Thursday night's vice presidential debate very closely â undecided voters, especially women. TODAY's Amy Robach reports.
ANALYSIS
By LIZ SIDOTI
updated 10:27 p.m. ET, Thurs., Oct. 2, 2008
WASHINGTON - Joe Bidenâs task was to attack. Sarah Palinâs was to attack, connect and stick to her folksy script.
While both vice presidential candidates succeeded in their only debate of the campaign Thursday night, the stakes were much higher and the bar was much lower for Palin. So, in the contest of low expectations, Palin won.
From her first words, a confident Palin sought to connect with voters whose confidence in her qualifications has waned. She sprinkled down-home phrases throughout her answers â âbless their heartsâ and âdarn right.â Americans werenât just people they were âJoe Six-Packâ and âHockey Moms.â And who needs polls, she suggested, when there are youth soccer games with parents on the sidelines.
âIâll betcha youâre going to hear some fear in that parentâs voice,â Palin said.
She defended Republican presidential nominee John McCain from Bidenâs litany of criticisms, and took Biden to task over both his record and that of Democratic nominee Barack Obama.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27001589/?GT1=43001
Contest with Biden allows her to get past embarrassing moments
Women react to VP debate
Oct. 3: One group watched Thursday night's vice presidential debate very closely â undecided voters, especially women. TODAY's Amy Robach reports.
ANALYSIS
By LIZ SIDOTI
updated 10:27 p.m. ET, Thurs., Oct. 2, 2008
WASHINGTON - Joe Bidenâs task was to attack. Sarah Palinâs was to attack, connect and stick to her folksy script.
While both vice presidential candidates succeeded in their only debate of the campaign Thursday night, the stakes were much higher and the bar was much lower for Palin. So, in the contest of low expectations, Palin won.
From her first words, a confident Palin sought to connect with voters whose confidence in her qualifications has waned. She sprinkled down-home phrases throughout her answers â âbless their heartsâ and âdarn right.â Americans werenât just people they were âJoe Six-Packâ and âHockey Moms.â And who needs polls, she suggested, when there are youth soccer games with parents on the sidelines.
âIâll betcha youâre going to hear some fear in that parentâs voice,â Palin said.
She defended Republican presidential nominee John McCain from Bidenâs litany of criticisms, and took Biden to task over both his record and that of Democratic nominee Barack Obama.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27001589/?GT1=43001