I think your analysis is good.
I don’t think Paul Ryan had the intention of going for the jugular and was intentionally playing it safe.
I was neither exceptionally happy nor disappointed with Ryan.
I actually think the safe mode was tactically correct play to make in light of Biden’s performance.
Conversely, I think Biden was advised to do the opposite.
However, the election all comes down to getting votes of white middle class women in the midwest.
This is where the Obama/Biden/Liberal Arrogance does them their biggest disservice.
Biden[’s act might play well for MSNBC, but neither campaign should try to earn the votes of the New York/Washington liberal media.
They should be trying to earn the vote of my mom.
Now who did a better job of getting the vote of a mom in the midwest, Biden or Ryan?
Ryan is obviously the clear winner from a practical non-ideological. point of view and Biden is a big loser, a bigger loser than the liberal media conventional wisdom believes right now.
Biden was “Eddie Haskel” to Ryan’s “Wally.”