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Sarah Palin has an eye-lash problem: Update: She also seemed to spend half the debate winking at America. Was she trying to woo us...or pull someth...

Palin appeared to lack any semblance of the requisite depth, knowledge, or sense of history we should expect in a president or vice president. As a Republican former White House chief of staff said to me, "Palin is evidence of desperation; she is an embarrassment."

Conservative lip service to ideas like free markets and a strong defense produced neither. These "values" were never actually turned into priorities for policy making.

Boarding the train home to Delaware Wednesday night after voting for the Senate bailout bill, Biden told reporters, "I'm feeling good" about Thursday ...

Joe Biden gets the first laugh of the night, calling the McCain-Palin health care plan "the ultimate bridge to nowhere." Watch: ...

"I may not answer the questions, but I'm going to say a whole lot of shit. Ask me anything and I will talk. What's that? Russia? Listen, I read a LOT of newspapers."

Presented with the contention that John McCain represented a set of "maverick" possibilities in governance, Senator Joe Biden offered up a spirited an...

A strange moment in the debate, where Sarah Palin refuses to answer if her ticket would have to pull back on some campaign promises in light of the fi...

More coverage of the debate in HuffPost's politics section. 10:35 - Sam Stein: An Obama aide summarizes the night's proceeding as such: Palin did a g...

As a result of her alarming interviews, doing better than expectations is no longer the bar for Palin. That ship has long passed. She must convince Americans that she won't destroy America.

I have to at least try to defend the point she was (so badly) trying to make. Alaska was on the front lines of the Cold War. It's a valid point, especially with a newly-resurgent and newly-belligerent Russia.

More coverage of the debate in HuffPost's politics section. 10:35 - Sam Stein: An Obama aide summarizes the night's proceeding as such: Palin did a g...

This election won't be won or lost at the debates. Nor will it be determined by the two campaigns' "ground games." My fear is that the results will hang on the swing state voting systems' vulnerability to sabotage.

"I think he was first elected when I was like in second grade," Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says of Sen. Joe Biden in part two of the interview she's done...