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Originally Posted by brianwspencer
The VP debate is going to be the best thing of the entire season. This is a hilariously awful, desperate choice, and Biden is going to wipe the floor with her.
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I actually think she could be a very tricky match-up for Biden.
Biden is a better debater than Obama and is great at ruthlessly slicing and dicing people up all while maintaing a big smile.
Like Pants says, if he doesn't change his style he could very easily come off as "a bully who offends the soccer moms and ArlJim's of the world"
You get the same comparitive scoring in debates that you tend to get from people in rounds of boxing matches - if it's close, and not obvious who the winner is, the person coming into the contest overmatched will get the edge in scoring. I expect you'll hear Palin to be declared the winner as long as she can avoid saying something stupid.
Obama is now heavily favored to win this election. His odds have fallen below 50 cents on a dollar. McCain's odds have risen above 2-to-1.
Unless that margin begains to tighten - I would think Biden is going to be sent into that debate playing mr. nice guy to such an extreme that you'd think he was going out of his way to try and make Palin look good. I don't expect him to try and bait her into saying something stupid either.
As a strong favorite, they have nothing to gain and possibly something to lose by sending an attack dog with a smile out to savage her.