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     The question of who won the Vice-presidential debate is today's headlines.  Both sides claim that their favorite won.  Unless either side would have suffer a catastrophic loss it is to be expected that both sides would claim victory.  The truth can only be real for those who watched it live for the news media is no longer impartial enough to offer the real thing.  It is hard to find the whole truth in the media as they usually suffer from opinionated reporting.  So unless you watched the debate don't expect to find unbiased reporting .

Follow up:

     MSNBC who is usually very partial in favor of the Democratic candidate appeared to have abstained and has not given either of the candidates a clear win.  They did comment that doubts linger on Palin’s qualifications although the same can be said about Barack Obama who is the presidential nominee and not the VP.  Coming from MSNBC, a tie is a clear win for Sarah Palin as they never side with the Republican candidates and is well established that their Liberal views have Barack Obama as their presidential choice.

     ABC has fairly reported different points of view in analysis and refrained from declaring a winner by meriting both performances.

     FOX who allows debate on both side of the political spectrum and is well known for their conservatives view has given Palin a win.  FOX undoubtedly has the largest percentage of conservative viewers.  Their point of view was not so much as who won the debate but they saw it as which side gave their party a bigger boost.  It would be hard to argue that even a tie, would not be a gain for McCain.  FOX did polling by giving viewers a number to call and text vote a debate winner.  The polling results were 12% in favor of Biden and 86% in favor of Palin.

     CNN was a completely different story when it came to refereeing a fair debate.  Their headlines have given Biden a clear win.  Shortly after the debate they were giving Biden a much clearer win until they noticed that they were standing alone with such overwhelming conclusion.  Not to be overlooked is that unlike their competitors in the media they were the only ones that in the front page inserted comments that were very negative of Palin.  Comments by Hillary Rosen: “She wasn’t horrible but she wasn’t good. And she is not ready to be president.”

     If you watched the debate you don’t need anyone to tell you who won and who lost:

     Joe Biden was himself; he is knowledgeable, older and more experienced so he did what was expected of him.  He is known for being overly aggressive but during the debate he was mellow and that helped him by not appearing as if he was bullying Palin.  He is also known for his many gaffes and at least apparently during the debate he did not so.  After analysis by the media it was noted that he made a few totally incorrect statements and others that were questionable.  Overall Joe Biden performance was good.

     Sarah Palin did not take chances by going into any material that she did not feel comfortable with but as Biden made some statements that were questionable.  She did not have to win against the older more experienced politician.    Her mission was not to prove that she was more knowledgeable and experienced than her opponent but to show that her character and decisiveness could overcome being less experienced and that she did exceedingly well.  She did not stumble once nor stuttered her answers as Barack Obama does repeatedly.  Her mission was to give the McCain/Palin ticket a boost and that she apparently did but only the polls in the next few days will determine such.

     One thing is for sure to those that watched the first Presidential debate; it was boring compared to the VP debate.  McCain did a terrible job at presenting his record and agenda.  He never effectively was able to distant himself from the Bush Administration as Obama repeatedly pinned him against.  Barack Obama showed no initiative or experience by spending half of his talk time saying: “I agree with Senator McCain.”

     Last night’s VP debate is equivalent to the movie Rocky:  Here is an experienced fighter and a rooky contestant that came out of nowhere.  The experienced fighter side is confident that they are going for a show and an easy clear win. The underdog well trained, highly motivated and more concern with performance than a victory does not step into the ring to win but to fight.  At the end of the show we can see a bruised and beaten experienced fighter with a victory so slim that becomes irrelevant.  On the other side we can also see a bruised and beaten fighter that although loses the fight wins the hearts of the viewers and leaves then with the impression that his performance made him the winner.

     It is a good thing for the Obama camp that there is only one VP debate scheduled.  If there was an opportunity for another debate they would echo the words of Apollo Creed after his fight with Rocky: “There will be no rematch.”

     Vote wisely in 2008