In advance, the Obama strategists took the confrontation with the crowd-pleasing, unpredictable Palin seriously. "We knew, and we prepared for the fact that "debating Sarah Palin was an enormously difficult task with very little upside, because people thought Palin would be lucky to get off the stage without a monumental gaffe. But we knew having studied her that she was a damn good debater."
The two nominees exchanged predictable policy positions. From the outset, Palin injected a tone of folksiness. The debate sparked more curiosity than substantive discussion, and Biden came out the clear winner in the post-debate polls.
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