I will make a comment on Raddatz. She attacked Biden on Libya and drew his biggest gaffe/ lie of the night. It also registered Biden’s biggest low in the focus groups.
However, it’s also true she cut Ryan off a lot and allowed Biden to interrupt endlessly. Either she or Ryan should have confronted Biden and made him stop.
Biden only interrupted Ryan 82 times. Come on, what is your problem? /sarcasm
Yep. I kept waiting for Ryan to say in a respectful tone of voice:"Please Mr. Vice President, let me finish."
Done right, that slap-down might have been a game-changer. But Ryan never said it.
Just when Ryan would begin to identify/spell out a Romney/Ryan plan for America's future, Joe would interrupt.
The result...? Ryan's point was muted and not heard. Damn clever, actually....
“...she attacked Biden on Libya...”
I got the distinct impression that this “attack” was planned to get the Libya topic covered right away while Biden still remembered his talking points, since the dems knew the topic was inevitable. I think the Raddatz’ timing was her way of helping Biden out as much as possible. It ended up not working though - as you pointed out Biden lied and it didn’t work anyway.
Just my impression, I probably read too much into it though because I knew she was already on the democrat side.