Vice-Presidential Debate Live Commentary Thread

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Ryan won foreign policy with more coherent sentences,...

Grammarwise, may be. In terms content, did he actually say anything? I am not asking about anything coherent; anything at all?

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much of the Romney surge in the last week has been due to GOP enthusiasm.

Wouldn't say that. He moved sharply to the center - would be surprising if it were causing much GOP enthusiasm.

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People, we need a Joe Biden here in Spain. Could we share him, at least?

Take the jerk. Please.

I'd gladly take "the jerk" if I could, believe me. Can I give you Rajoy?

Would you send the rest of them gallegos as part of the deal?

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Ryan is not talking like an adult on foreign policy.

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Ryan is not talking like an adult on foreign policy.

To such an extent that it was actually vaguely funny.

And quite distinctly scary.

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I am glad that my mind isn't wired like some of you lighthearted magic centrists that seem to value tone over policy accuracy. "Oh gosh golly, Joe isn't being nice to little Paul Ryan! What a meanie!"

Fun fact: it's not that he's being aggressive. That's nothing new. It's more that it's astounding that this country could ever elect a ticket with such an arrogant old f[Inks]ing bastard on it.

Have they ever had anybody not arrogant on a major party ticket, since, say, George Washington?

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Ryan started off well in content...

Assuming by "starting well" you mean his first foreign policy comments, what was exactly there that deserves this characterization?

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Now I can say Biden has won the debate. Republicans are so far behind the status quo in the social aspect of the country..

No the Republicans are right on the social aspect.

The problem is: they are also to the right of the median voter on this

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Just a comment: why would a Northeast Democrat ever care about Democrats winning in Oklahoma? Local Oklahoma Dems he is unlikely to have any sympathy with, and the weaker they are in the national party, the more the national party looks like he'd like it to look. And, of course, if on a presidential level Oklahoma is competitive, it means a landslide of such proportions, that they wouldn't even care about Texas. From the standpoint of a, say, NY Dem, an OK Dem is, sort of, like a Puerto Rican Republican would be from the standpoint of Tom Tancredo - utterly inconsequential.