Slate V Campaign Recap

Everything you might have missed (or want to relive) between the first and last debates:

SNL: VP debate

Last night’s Saturday Night Live open, about the VP debate:

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Slate V: From the Conventions to the First Debate in 3 minutes

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Palin debate flow chart

From DailyKos, your guide to what’s going through her head during those long pauses:

Women on Palin’s performance

Amy Sullivan reports on an all-female focus group’s reaction in Colorado:
“I’d like to have lunch with Sarah,” said one married woman, “but have Joe running my country.” Another agreed: “I think Sarah Palin is cute as a button and is good in sound bytes, but she just is not ready.” Before the debate, only 10 [...]

The tyranny of healthier seniors

Krugman digs up the source of that closing Palin quote about the ongoing need to defend our liberties.  It’s from a Ronald Reagan ad against Medicare–a program most Americans today would rather expand than end in the name of “freedom.”

VP Debate

First impressions: No major gaffes on either side, except maybe the part where Palin endorsed Cheney’s view on the role of (and rules governing) the VP.  I don’t think she really understood the question.  No totally obvious deer-in-the-headlights moments, though.  I thought the times when Palin called Biden naive just made her look silly.  Biden [...]

Obama’s press conference today

The video is below.  When asked why he won’t agree to postpone the debate(s), Obama points out that the men who would be President should be able to do two (or more!) things at once.
Is McCain trying to seem even older than he is?  James Fallows proposes one potential response from voters:
The candidate who wants [...]

My dog ate my economic plan

Slate’s John Dickerson via Twitter just now:
“McCain suspending campaign to handle econ.crisis. Debate prep. apparently not going that well. I tried this with papers in college but wow.”
This is still the real world and not some elaborate episode of Punk’d, right?