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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.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Joe Biden Dispenses With the Niceties — In case you missed it, I predicted that Paul Ryan would wipe the floor with Joe Biden. That did not so much happen. Ryan did not perform quite as well as I expected - he seemed greener, younger, and he visibly gulped when challenged.
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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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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Raddatz Visited Biden at His Residence in March — White House records reveal that the moderator of last night's vice presidential debate, Martha Raddatz, visited Vice President Joe Biden at his official residence on March 26, 2012. Raddatz is an employee of ABC News.
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Rick Wilson / Ricochet Conversations Feed:
The Edge of Panic — Last night's performance by Biden â€" capering, giggling, near-maniacal opera buffa â€" was targeted in one place: a dispirited, demoralized Democratic base on the edge of panic. — Paul Ryan was businesslike, steady, and on-point.
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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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
VP Debate 2012: The Real Paul Ryan Is Bad for America
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Wall Street Journal:
Noonan: Confusing Strength With Aggression
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Angry old man yells at Paul Ryan for 90 minutes; Update: CNN insta-poll of undecideds shows tie …
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
GOP not smiling over Biden's laughter at debate vs. Ryan
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Biden Bombed — You don't win a nationally televised debate by being rude and obnoxious.
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Thoughts on the vice presidential debate
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Very Quick Thoughts
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Ricochet Conversations Feed:
Mollie Hemingway, Ed. : You Want To Win The Debate, But You Also Want To Win The Post-Debate
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Live-Blogging The Biden-Ryan Debate
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Andrew Rosenthal / Taking Note:
In Praise of Martha Raddatz
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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
White House: Obama and Biden were never aware of requests for more Benghazi security — Vice President Joseph Biden speaks only for himself and President Barack Obama, and neither man was aware that U.S. officials in Libya had asked the State Department for more security before the Sept. 11 attack …
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Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
VIDEO CAPTURED LIBYA ATTACK — Footage from the night of Sept. 11 might be the clearest evidence yet of a military-style assault on the consulate in Benghazi. Eli Lake reports. — Video footage from the United States consulate in Benghazi, Libya, taken the night of the Sept. 11 anniversary attacks …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Sen. Corker: Obama must have known what happened in Libya
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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Biden contradicts State Department on Benghazi security
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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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Michael R. Blood / Associated Press:
Brad Sherman, Howard Berman Fight: California Congressional Race Turns Physical (VIDEO)
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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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Cindy Adams / New York Post:
Lindsay Lohan endorses Mitt Romney — LOS ANGELES - Four years ago, Lindsay Lohan referred to Obama's Presidential victory as “amazing,” but cut to 2012, and it seems the “Mean Girls” star has had a serious change of heart. — “I think unemployment is very important for now, so as of now I think …
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Americans' Views of Obama More Polarized as Election Nears — Ninety percent of Democrats, 8% of Republicans approve of him — PRINCETON, NJ — Thus far in October, an average of 90% of Democrats, and 8% of Republicans, approve of the job Barack Obama is doing as president.
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Lee Enterprises / Missoulian:
Grenade burns sleeping girl as SWAT team raids Billings home — A 12-year-old girl suffered burns to one side of her body when a flash grenade went off next to her as a police SWAT team raided a West End home Tuesday morning. — “She has first- and second-degree burns down the left side …
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TWS Podcast / Weekly Standard:
Kristol Reacts to the Vice Presidential Debate — Hosted by Michael Graham. — THE WEEKLY STANDARD podcast with Bill Kristol, hosted by Michael Graham: — This podcast can be downloaded here. Subscribe to THE WEEKLY STANDARD's iTunes podcast feed here.
Ben Hubbard / Associated Press:
Syria activists say jihadis seize missile base — An al Qaeda-linked group reportedly fought alongside rebels who seized a Syrian missile base on Friday. — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — 12:15PM EDT October 12. 2012 - — BEIRUT (AP) — A shadowy jihadi group believed to be linked …
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