The “moderates” I hear from, the ones who like to bash/chide “both sides”, say Biden was rude and obnoxious.
Most of the hard left wing Hussein Heads really liked the “moderator”’s performance, often declared her the winner, didn’t have much if anything to say about Biden.
The other hard left wing Hussein Heads egged on Biden, “Go get ‘im, Joe” was common.
Interesting.
What was the goal of each? Ryan was to win over undecideds and independents. He stayed calm and didn’t react to Joe’s show.
Joe. He had to motivate his base. Volunteers and their core voters didn’t see Obama even wanted to win. Biden couldn’t go after the undecideds because their whole campaign was on the ropes. So he did fire up the base. But at the cost of alienating undecideds, particularly women who hate arrogant, interrupting men.
Biden is too experienced not to have planed his whole schtick for a specific purpose. Obama camp was their target. Understandable but looking at the post-debate polls it likely won’t stop the downward spiral.
Biden also created a “sweet spot” for Obama. Joe was so over the top obnoxious, Obama can now toughen up his game a bit and still not appear obnoxious.
I said this on another thread: overheard one of Holder's people this morning say: "Did you see our Vice President put that little boy in his place last night?"