{"id":1909,"date":"2008-10-03T02:14:25","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T02:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-10-03T04:34:38","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T04:34:38","slug":"so_the_debate_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1909","title":{"rendered":"So The Debate Is Starting…"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK – I’ll make a tepid prediction…she’ll get a bump. It’s both because she’s a good debater, Biden is a turkey (don’t we all wish we were watching the same debate with Hillary and Palin?), and because – as Michelle Cottle said at TNR said<\/a> as well as I could have:<\/p>\n

And now the entire political world perches on the edge of its seat, wondering if tonight’s tango with Joe Biden will discredit Palin so completely that she’ll take the now-codependent John McCain down with her.<\/p>\n

\nDon’t bet on it. The smart money says Palin will emerge with, at most, superficial wounds. In part, this is about the expectations game: Post-Katie, the bar has been set so low for Palin that, unless she faints or vomits on air, her team will rush to declare a victory–not just for her, but for all of Joe Six-Pack America. But it is also about Palin’s particular skill set, the audience she’s playing to, and the nature of the political media. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m liking Ifill, though…<\/p>\n

And I’ll note that I’ll be on the air with Brad Friedman:<\/p>\n

We’ll carry the debate LIVE at 6pm PT (9pm ET), followed by an in-studio “Bloggers Roundtable” until 9pm PT (Midnight ET), featuring world class bloggers:<\/p>\n

\nMARCY WHEELER of Empty Wheel<\/a>
\nDAVID “DDAY” DAYEN of Hullabalo<\/a> & Calitics<\/a>
\nMARC “ARMED LIBERAL” DANZIGER of Winds Of Change<\/a>
\nPAMELA LEAVEY of The Democratic Daily<\/a>, and;
\nPATRICK FREY of Patterico<\/a><\/p>\n

\nPlus your calls if we can fit ’em in, at 800-989-1480. To hell with Chris Matthews, Wolf Blitzer and their professional spinners! <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I may add some comments as we go…<\/p>\n

Biden is owning her on taxes…and she’s stumbling and reaching. Biden is making a conceptual point, and she’s not…<\/p>\n

So I’m the only one here who thinks she blew it…everyone else here thinks she did just fine…<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The debate is leaving the station…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}