Really????

I called it! Mediocre performance hailed as supreme success because it was not utter failure. Sigh.

Some fact checkin' on both sides.....(from the AP)

More fact checking from NPR

I was gonna add FOX to this list of fact checkers, but their article, to their credit, I suppose, was from the AP.  

Didn't watch?? Watch it here....

Biden shoulda not been so reluctant to be dismissive and 

abrasive, but what are you gonna do?  

The Drudge Poll above came up @ 69% for Palin having won by about halfway through the debate.   

What exactly did she answer??? 

I thought Biden did a good job overall, was sharp and on point and gave credible answers.  Thought Palin did alright too, though as Mark Halperin noted on Charlie Rose she was "graded on a curve."  She didn't lay any goose-egg, which was all she needed to do.  

My man Fareed Zakaria lays it out pretty nicely (and harshly) in a pre-debate analysis.  

But, also, as Halperin noted, the withdrawal of the McCain campaign from Michigan, thereby essentially conceding defeat there, is the HUGE story of the day, not the debate.