memeorandum: The Vice-Presidential Debate (New York Times)

8:45 AM ET, October 3, 2008

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Brian Montopoli / CBS News:

CBS Poll: More Uncommitted Voters Saw Biden As Winner — UPDATED CBS News and Knowledge Networks have conducted a nationally representative poll of 473 uncommitted voters to get their immediate reaction to tonight's vice presidential debate. — After the first presidential debate …

Discussion: Marc Ambinder, Washington Monthly, Macsmind, Eunomia, Outside The Beltway, BitsBlog, Hot Air, Taylor Marsh, Group News Blog, The Nation, No More Mister Nice Blog, The E&P Pub and Washington Post

CNN:

Transcript of Palin, Biden debate — WASHINGTON (CNN) — The vice presidential candidates, Democratic Sen. Joe Biden and Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, debated in St. Louis, Missouri, Thursday night. Gwen Ifill of PBS was the debate moderator. Here is a transcript of that debate:

CNN:

Poll: Biden wins debate, Palin exceeds expectations — (CNN) - A national poll of people who watched the vice presidential debate suggests that Democratic Sen. Joe Biden won but also hints that Republican Gov. Sarah Palin exceeded expectations. — The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey …

Discussion: New York Times, UPI, American Power, TalkLeft, DownWithTyranny!, Think Progress, TIME.com, Ben Smith's Blogs, FiveThirtyEight.com and Liberal Values

Michelle Malkin:

SARAH ROCKS! — 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.

Discussion: Gateway Pundit, Crooks and Liars, Pajamas Media, TBogg, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, The Other McCain, Viking Pundit, Hot Air and National Review

Tom Shales / Washington Post:

Palin Takes On A New Foe: Her Image — Sarah Palin looked as though she had prepared for her appearance at the vice presidential debate last night by studying Tina Fey's impressions of her on “Saturday Night Live.” She twinkled and winked and piled on the perkiness, a “darn right” here and an “I'll betcha” there.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The New Republic, Top of the Ticket, Betsy's Page, Broadband Politics and Greg's Opinion

New York Times:

The Vice-Presidential Debate — We cannot recall when there were lower expectations for a candidate than the ones that preceded Sarah Palin's appearance in Thursday night's vice-presidential debate with Joseph Biden. After a series of stumbling interviews that raised serious doubts …

Discussion: ProgressPolitics, Prairie Weather and AMERICAblog News

Roger Simon / The Politico:

You betcha Sarah Palin can debate — ST. LOUIS — Sarah Palin was supposed to fall off the stage at her vice presidential debate Thursday evening. Instead, she ended up dominating it. — She not only kept Joe Biden on the defensive for much of the debate, she not only repeatedly attacked Barack Obama …

Discussion: TPM Election Central, Salon, NY Daily News, The Corner, Toby Harnden's blog listings and The Moderate Voice

Marisa Katz / Washington Post:

The VP Debate: The Strangest I've Ever Seen — Exactly an hour into the debate, Joe Biden began an answer by saying, “Facts matter, Gwen.” — To him, maybe. To Sarah Palin, maybe not. The pattern, so far, has been one of Biden presenting facts and Palin countering with... saying stuff.

Discussion: Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Midwest Voices, Dean's World and The Mahatma X Files

Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:

Live-Blogging The Veeps — 10.30 pm. Biden's sobriety and authority and call for fundamental change is both reasonable and solid. It will resonate, I think. As you can read, I began this debate feeling that she was steam-rolling him. She was. But it was a steam-roller coming at you on fumes, not real fuel.

Discussion: Riehl World View, Obsidian Wings, Althouse, Crooks and Liars, At-Largely, Lonewacko, The Reaction, The Sundries Shack, Pajamas Media and Jules Crittenden

David Brooks / New York Times:
The Palin Rebound

Discussion: www.redstate.com, Commentary, Eunomia and Shakesville

Ace / minx.cc:
Biden's 14 Lies — Fresh from the McCain people. — JOE BIDEN'S 14 LIES TONIGHT

Discussion: Betsy's Page and Say Anything

Kos / Daily Kos:
Post-debate thoughts — Sarah Palin won! Actually …

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, The Huffington Post, The Daily Dish, www.redstate.com, The Strata-Sphere, Stop The ACLU, Reason and Weekly Standard

Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
In Debate, Republican Ticket Survives One Test

Discussion: Don Surber

CBS News:
VP Candidates Assess Dick Cheney

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs, unbossed.com and Amygdala

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Post-VP Debate Thoughts

Discussion: Open Left, Crooks and Liars, Washington Post, Outside The Beltway and Whiskey Fire

Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Palin Delivers, But Doubts Linger

Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Guardian

CBS News:
CBS Poll: Uncommitted Voters Say Biden Won

Discussion: Democratic Strategist and NewsBusters.org

Gateway Pundit:
Monster Rally Greets Palin Like a Super Bowl Champ After Debate!

Discussion: Power Line, Pajamas Media, TigerHawk, Wizbang, Sister Toldjah and Townhall.com

Washington Wire: Who Won the Vice-Presidential Debate?

Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Early Snap Polls: Biden Won Handily

Discussion: Newshoggers.com and skippy the bush kangaroo

Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
DEBATE LIVEBLOGGING.

Discussion: Marc Ambinder, The Huffington Post, Power Line, AMERICAblog News, Real Clear Politics, Wonkette and Taegan Goddard's …

New York Times:
Transcript: The Vice-Presidential Debate

Discussion: TPM Election Central, The Seminal, The Caucus and Gothamist

Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Sarah Palin and Joe Biden Complete Debate Transcript

Discussion: Hot Air

Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Palin v Biden: Debate of the season

Discussion: Pajamas Media, Eunomia, Jonathan Martin's Blogs, Talking Points Memo, Hullabaloo and Taylor Marsh

Megan McArdle:
Three . . . two . . . one . . . . liveblog

Discussion: The Next Right, Threat Level, Wonkette and The Debatable Land

Toby Harnden / Telegraph:

Exclusive: Barack Obama is ‘aloof’ says British ambassador to US — Barack Obama is a “decidedly liberal” senator “who was finding his feet, and then got diverted by his presidential ambitions”, according to a frank verdict delivered to Gordon Brown by the British ambassador to the United States.

Discussion: Toby Harnden's blog listings, Don Surber, Say Anything and Commentary

Daily Mail:
Sarah Palin blunders over talks with British ambassador that never …

Discussion: unbossed.com

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Edge of the Abyss — As recently as three weeks ago it was still possible to argue that the state of the U.S. economy, while clearly not good, wasn't disastrous — that the financial system, while under stress, wasn't in full meltdown and that Wall Street's troubles weren't having that much impact on Main Street.

Discussion: The Agonist

Stephen Labaton / New York Times:

Agency's '04 Rule Let Banks Pile Up New Debt, and Risk — “We have a good deal of comfort about the capital cushions at these firms at the moment.” — Christopher Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, March 11, 2008. — As rumors swirled that Bear Stearns faced imminent collapse …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The Big Picture and Oliver Willis

Los Angeles Times:

Schwarzenegger to U.S.: State may need $7-billion loan — In a letter obtained by The Times, the governor warns that tight credit has dried up funds California routinely relies on and it may have to seek emergency aid within weeks. — SACRAMENTO — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger …

Discussion: AMERICAblog News

Russell Roberts / Wall Street Journal:

How Government Stoked the Mania — Housing prices would never have risen so high without multiple Washington mistakes. — Many believe that wild greed and market failure led us into this sorry mess. According to that narrative, investors in search of higher yields bought novel securities …