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How Joe Biden and Paul Ryan performed in the 2012 vice presidential debate: 25 instant assessments

  1. Biden vs. Ryan

  2. "pretty much of a draw" is Wolf Blitzer's instant analysis
  3. This debate will be judged a draw. Motivational to base, utterly irrelevant to uncommitted. Biden passionate, goofy. Ryan detailed, nerdy.
  4. REAL TIME SURVEY: Biden crushes Ryan in debate's first hour huff.to/RSrxQh
  5. This debate is basically focusing on stuff that @MarthaRaddatz knows and cares about and not issues voters care about.
  6. Why this debate is so good: Biden and Ryan clearly hate one another. #vpdebate
  7. My initial takeaway: contrary to expectations, Ryan winning on foreign policy, Biden on economic policy. And my big margins, on both sides
  8. Biden

  9. Big question is whether voters view Biden's hectoring and mocking as powerful or drunk-uncle jackassery.
  10. Ryan needs to turn to Biden and say, forcefully, "Stop interrupting me."
  11. Biden's constant "I was there" defense sounds like a stoner pining for Woodstock.
  12. Set everything else aside, Biden is showing the passion and personal investment that Obama completely lacked in his debate. #debate
  13. The three days Biden spent in a prep room just laughing into a mirror is really paying off #debate
  14. Biden bringing way more energy/passion than Obama did. But I bet Chicago wishes he would curb that split screen chuckle.
  15. In his first couple of answers, #Biden has already outperformed Obama in the entire first debate.
  16. Biden's energy works for him when he's talking; that same energy during the split screen in the form of smirks at certain times, not sure
  17. Probably not good for Dems that VP Biden is laughing contemputously at Rep Ryan on splitscreen.
  18. Ryan

  19. Ryan's wrapup effective to the extend it doesn't point to Romney specifics but to Obama's failures
  20. Ryan needs to turn to Biden and say, forcefully, "Stop interrupting me."
  21. Ryan's answer on taxes is the best answer, by either candidate, of the entire debate.
  22. Right about now, Ryan's thinking "Oh, so *this* is how Obama felt last week."

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