CBS and CNN snap polls says Biden is the winner

CBS polled 473 uncommitted voters after the debate. CNN ran a poll of all voters committed or not. Let's cut to the chase...

CBS
Palin ---- 21
Biden ----46

CNN
Palin ---- 36
Biden --- 51

Live blogging the Palin Biden debate at Hal and Mal's

8:18 It took a while to pull an IP address because the wireless reception is terrible here. Palin looks as bad as I thought she would. Biden is on fire, dissecting every Palin answer for its hollowness. As I write he blowing away her gibberish on taxes. The ultimate bridge to nowhere remark brought the loudest ovation from the packed partisan crowd here in the Red Room at Hal and Mals. There are at least 75-100 people here, even a few Palin impersonators dressed like the governor of Alaska.

8:29 My god, she is even worse than I imagined. Joe Biden gives a factual, on the point answer, and then Palin comes sounding like a Valley Girl. Now she is talking about climate change, which she has previously denied. She just tried to cover her tracks on climate change to get in line with McCain. "we gotta become energy independent also, you know...."

8:42 The crowd here is having a blast laughing at Sarah Palin. They are playing Palin bingo, too funny.

8:47 She is regurgitating the neocon line word for word. Listening to her on Israel and Pakistan is embarrassing.

8:57 Sarah Palin thinks we are doing great in Afghanistan and wants to use the surge. Biden says what we have spent in Iraq in 3 weeks is more than we have spent in Afghanistan since 2003, boom.

9:02 First Biden gaffe, Bosniacs.

9:03 Palin draws blood with Iraq war vote comment

9:07 Palin sounds dumb again, who would have thunk it. "John McCain knows how to win a war..." What war has he won? Please can you name one. How does a person win a war?

9:09 Palin: "A team of mavericks... we need a team from Wasilla..." This is better than a stand up comedy show... The crowd at Hal and Mal's is heehawing every dumb Palin comment, which means it is loud in here.

9:12 Palin fires a personal barb at Biden saying his wifes reward for 30 years of teaching is awaiting in heaven. She is now is trying to lure Joe into a street-fight, don't take the bait Joe.

9:14 A patron gets Palin bingo.

9:24 I went to get a beer and Joe Biden lands a couple of left-hooks. Palin responds with the maverick bit. Biden then destroys her argument.

9:30 Debate over, Biden wins. Time to talk to few of the nice looking Obama backers. Wow, this might be a landslide.

Cotton Mouth at the DNC

I am leaving bright and early for Denver. While there I will try my best to soak it all in, and report daily on the comings and goings of the Democratic National Convention. I have already RSVP'd for several events including guests like Howard Dean.

Jeff will check in with you live from Denver tomorrow evening.

Biden calls it like he sees it

Former Presidential nominees are making the rounds in news today. I'm sure it's somewhere else, but the CNN Political Ticker blog posted this speech from Sen. Joe Biden today.

The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Joe Biden, D-Delaware, called President Bush’s comments accusing Sen. Barack Obama and other Democrats of wanting to appease terrorists "bullshit” and said if the president disagrees so strongly with the idea of talking to Iran then he needs to fire his secretaries of State and Defense, both of whom Biden said have pushed to sit down with the Iranians.

“This is bullshit. This is malarkey. This is outrageous. Outrageous for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, sit in the Knesset…and make this kind of ridiculous statement,” Biden said angrily in a brief interview just off the Senate floor.

“He’s the guy who’s weakened us. He’s the guy that’s increased the number of terrorists in the world. His policies have produced this vulnerability the United States has. His intelligence community pointed that out not me. The NIE has pointed that out and what are you talking about, is he going to fire Condi Rice? Condi Rice has
talked about the need to sit down. So his first two appeasers are Rice and Gates. I hope he comes home and does something.”

He quoted Gates saying Wednesday that we “need to figure out a way to develop some leverage and then sit down and talk with them.”