Friday, October 03, 2008

A triumph of lowering expectations

So Palin loses the debate but wins the battle it seems. By failing to be the disaster she's been in recent weeks Sarah Palin managed to clear the bar of expectation that she's so lowered and ease the pressure from the Republican base

It was Biden's debate but Palin's triumph

26 percent of those surveyed said that Palin was more intelligent in the debate (57 percent who chose Biden).

51 percent of the debate watchers said that Biden did the best job in the debate, while 36 percent gave the nod to Palin.

However 84 percent of the debate watchers said she did better than expected.

Which is the way of things... they're going to win

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wouldn't worry. I'm just reading Notes From a Big Country - hardly hard science but good enough for the bath - which is reminding me how entirely awful things were under Clinton. It makes no difference really, anymore than Labour's replacement of the Tories - nothing that really matters is going to change for the better either way.

What are you going to do about it Homer? It's a two-party system...

Anonymous said...

aren't we the pessimist