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Joe Biden / CNN:
CNN Poll: Debate watchers split on who won VP debate — Danville, Kentucky (CNN) - Call it a draw. — Forty-eight percent of voters who watched the vice presidential debate think that Rep. Paul Ryan won the showdown, according to a CNN/ORC International nationwide poll conducted right after Thursday night's faceoff.
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CBS News:
Poll: Biden takes debate over Ryan, uncommitted voters say — Fifty percent of uncommitted voters who tuned into Thursday night's vice presidential debate in Danville, Ky., said they see Vice President Joe Biden as the winner over Mitt Romney's GOP running mate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., according to an instant poll taken by CBS News.
Wall Street Journal:
The Bully vs. the Wonk — The Veep's strategy: Show contempt for your opponent. — So now we know what Team Obama's comeback plan was following last week's defeat in the Presidential debate. Unleash Joe Biden to interrupt, filibuster, snarl, smirk and otherwise show contempt for Paul Ryan.
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NPR:
Transcript And Audio: Vice Presidential Debate … Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., participate in the vice presidential debate, moderated by Martha Raddatz of ABC News, Thursday in Danville, Ky. — Transcript of the Oct. 11 debate between Vice President Biden …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Very Quick Thoughts — I'll keep it brief. — I'd call the first exchange on foreign policy basically a draw. Biden was on uncomfortable terrain on the Libya story. On each successive encounter, Biden was on the offensive and owned the conversation. I don't think it was close.
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Sarah Palin: Martha Raddatz let Joe Biden run wild — Sarah Palin took vice presidential debate moderator Martha Raddatz to task for allowing Vice President Joe Biden to “run roughshod” over Paul Ryan. — “Really tough format, Sean, for someone like a Paul Ryan or anybody else up against Joe Biden …
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Patrick Gavin / Politico:
Twitter frowns on Joe Biden's laugh — Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan were the two candidates on stage at Thursday's vice presidential debate, but a third character emerged: Joe Biden's laugh, which didn't escape the notice of tweeting politicos.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Angry old man yells at Paul Ryan for 90 minutes; Update: CNN insta-poll of undecideds shows tie; Update: Ryan wins CNN insta-poll overall, 48/44 — I expected “table-pounding atmospherics” from Biden but I didn't expect him to act like a total jackhole for fully 90 minutes.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Live-Blogging The Biden-Ryan Debate — 10.33 pm. I have to say that Biden did to Ryan what Cheney did to Edwards in style and demeanor and authoritah. Ryan was hampered by an insurmountable problem on the impossible mathematics of the Romney budget. I think his inability to answer that question …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Debate verdict: Martha Raddatz took control — Tonight's winner: Martha Raddatz. — Jim Lehrer she is not. Raddatz, the moderator of tonight's vice presidential debate, served as an authoritative voice throughout the 90-minute contest between Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan …
Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Biden contradicts State Department on Benghazi security — Vice President Joe Biden claimed that the administration wasn't aware of requests for more security in Libya before the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi during Thursday night's debate, contradicting two State Department officials …
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Sources: Ryan to be called ‘mister,’ not ‘congressman,’ at debate (Updated) — When Paul Ryan and Joe Biden take the debate stage tonight in Danville, Ky., the form of address the debate moderator is supposed to use with the VP's opponent is “mister” instead of “congressman,” two sources confirmed to POLITICO.
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Joe Biden / CNN:
Transcript: Vice Presidential Debate
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John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
MEDIA HAMMERS BIDEN: ‘STOP SMIRKING!’ ‘WEIRD,’ ‘JERK’
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Wall Street Journal:
Noonan: Confusing Strength With Aggression
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Biden Bombed — You don't win a nationally televised debate by being rude and obnoxious.
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Reuters:
Joe Biden, Paul Ryan clear the bar — barely
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New York Times:
Biden and Ryan Quarrel Aggressively in Debate, Offering Contrasts
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Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Thoughts on the vice presidential debate
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
The Zombie-Eyed Granny-Starver Takes on the One Man Who Relishes This Mess: Your 2012 VP Debate Preview
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Paul Ryan / CNN:
Ryan aide says magazine used ‘poor judgment’ printing photos
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Tom Cohen / CNN:
Biden, Ryan slug it out in debate
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New York Times:
Nobel Committee Awards Peace Prize to European Union — PARIS — The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded its 2012 peace prize on Friday to the 27-nation European Union, lauding its role over six decades in building peace and reconciliation among enemies who fought Europe's bloodiest wars …
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Gene Maddaus / The Informer:
Brad Sherman Grabs Howard Berman At Debate, Challenges Him To A Fight — Think Biden-Ryan was a hard-fought debate? Then you missed the Berman-Sherman brawl up in the Valley today. — Congressman Brad Sherman put his arm around rival Congressman Howard Berman and challenged him to a fight, saying “Do you want to get into this?”
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Shelby Grad / PolitiCal:
Berman, Sherman get into near-altercation at forum [Video]
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John Boone / E! Online:
NEWS/Lindsay Lohan: I'm Voting for Mitt Romney — Lindsay Lohan should have enough issues to focus on in her life (like, say, the blow up fight she had with her mom and subsequent fight she had with her dad) but she has another on her mind: Unemployment. — The Liz & Dick star stepped …
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Adam C. Smith / Tampa Bay Times:
Times/Bay News 9/Herald exclusive Florida poll: Romney 51, Obama 44 — Barack Obama's lackluster debate performance last week has dramatically altered the presidential race in Florida, with Mitt Romney opening up a decisive 7 percentage point lead, according to a new Tampa Bay Times/Bay News 9/Miami Herald poll.
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Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Did Stephanie Cutter Just Win The Foreign Policy Debate For Romney? — In case you haven't seen the video, watch it. Drink it in. Obama campaign Deputy Communications Director Stephanie Cutter, in a craven and flailing attempt to salvage the White House's ebbing credibility surrounding …
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