What it's like to debate Sarah Palin (campaign, democratic, poll)

[max's mama]

What it's like to debate Sarah Palin

"Andrew, I watch you at these debates with no notes, no papers, and yet when asked questions, you spout off facts, figures, and policies, and I'm amazed. But then I look out into the audience and I ask myself, 'Does any of this really matter?' " Palin said.

Palin is a master of the nonanswer. She can turn a 60-second response to a query about her specific solutions to healthcare challenges into a folksy story about how she's met people on the campaign trail who face healthcare challenges. All without uttering a word about her public-policy solutions to healthcare challenges.
In one debate, a moderator asked the candidates to name a bill the legislature had recently passed that we didn't like. I named one. Democratic candidate Tony Knowles named one. But Sarah Palin instead used her allotted time to criticize the incumbent governor, Frank Murkowski. Asked to name a bill we did like, the same pattern emerged: Palin didn't name a bill.

[SarahSal]

Good article.. Yes, I think that's what we're likely to see tonight from Palin - evasion and subterfuge. Wonder if anyone will notice.

[sandycat]

Well today's pundits will catch her non-answers. She definitely will be under a microscope. I feel sorry for her tonight. I feel sorry for the both of them quite honestly. But I have also heard the VP debates almost never change poll numbers, so unless Biden totally tanks (which is concievable), Obama will still hold a strong lead.

[kidcanaduh]

McPalin is clueless. They had a chance to nail her to the cross by simply asking her to name the capital of various US states.

She hasn't a clue.