This is an interesting video. It notes some of the potential pit-falls and gotchas such as when VP George Bush, Sr., used the experience argument against Geraldine Ferraro, and she snapped back that it was paternalistic and patronizing for him to lecture her. Also, the video notes that Palin, like McCain, likes to rely on emotional anecdotes, rather than really focus on policy, and easily relies on broad generalizations when stumped on specifics. Yet, by playing the "regular Jane" card, she was able to hold her own in debates by turning her lack of knowledge into a strength.
http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=ebfac2eaf3489d19fc07c79758598d8b02b3dcbbAlso, here is the preview on Biden:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/us/politics/01biden.html?_r=1&oref=slogin/snip
With a single-word response, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. surprised and amused his listeners in the first Democratic primary debate, in April 2007. He was asked if he could be disciplined on the world stage and restrain his legendary loquaciousness.
"Yes,” he said.
No one expected Mr. Biden to stop there, but he did, leaving an expectant silence, until the audience caught the joke and burst into laughter.
He showed less restraint in a CNN/YouTube debate a few months later, when a gun owner asked where the candidates stood on gun control, saying he wanted to know if his “babies” would be safe. “This is my baby,” the man said on the video, showing off his Bushmaster AR-15.
“I’ll tell you what,” Mr. Biden replied. “If that is his baby, he needs help.”
The audience applauded enthusiastically, but Mr. Biden did not stop there.
He went on to deride the questioner, saying he incriminated himself because the man said he bought the gun while it was banned, then he questioned the man’s stability. “I don’t know that he is mentally qualified to own that gun,” he said in a gratuitous aside.
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Here is the NY's preview of Palin:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/us/politics/01palin.html/snip
A newcomer to the national scene, Ms. Palin has given little indication that she has been engaged in a serious way in the pressing national and international issues of the day.
But a review of a handful of her debate performances in the race for governor in 2006 shows a somewhat different persona from the one that has emerged since Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, named Ms. Palin as the vice-presidential nominee a month ago.
Ms. Palin, a former mayor who had become a whistle-blower about ethical misconduct in state government, held her own in those debates. (There were almost two dozen in the general election alone; she skipped some, and not all were recorded.)
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