horse of george

well, there's a shock- left leaning media outlets declare Obama winner of debate [generally with appeal to rationalization that in event of a tie advantage goes to him - which seems to me an argument that undermines their claim that Obama's reputed 'good judgment' is qualification enough for the job of Commander in Chief, ie it's an admission of weakness] and right leaning outlets declare McCain the winner. It's gotten to the point where commentary is so tainted by bias now that there seems little reason to pay attention. I do still read Politico.com though, my feeling is their coverage is pretty evenhanded - they seem to think McCain won the day so I'll go with that. Not that it matters much I imagine: if Sarah bombs next week the race is over. Conventional wisdom would hold otherwise, noting no one votes for the VP, which is true - but she's gotten so much attention and is such an object of curiosity that I think you can toss conventional wisdom out the window: if she doesn't do well it will reflect badly on McCain and that'll be the ball game. Their trying to shield her from the press is a bad sign - although I hold out hope that it's part of a cunning scheme to lay a trap for Biden, get him thinking she'll be a pushover and then out she comes, guns a blazin'. Not very likely, sure, but what the hell - I mean, when you think about it, keeping her locked away has to indicate either that she's in way over her head and they're panicked or that they're setting a trap - can't be that they're trying to lower expectations in order to eke out some kind of moral victory, they'd want to increase exposure in that case, no?