While I hate to perpetuate the horse race analogy favored by big media it is my opinion that the vice presidential debate was a draw.
My general impressions in free-form are:
1. I thought Cheney would be a whole lot meaner.
2. I thought Edwards would be a whole lot nicer.
3. Didn't Dick Cheney have papal posture?
4. I thought Cheney went as far as he could supporting both his daughter Mary and his boss George.
5. I thought Edwards showed class when he mentioned Mary Cheney and Dick Cheney genuinely seemed to appreciate it.
6. Neither Cheney nor Edwards worried too much about what the question was when answering. They both drove home their talking points at every opportunity.
7. Both Edwards and Cheney brought 90 minutes of material for a 90 minute debate.
8. Cheney used his entire mouth when talking and not just one side of it. Oh wait, did he stroke out at some point? That's probably in bad taste if he did. Sorry.
9. Vice President Cheney says America is only providing 50% of the casualties in the Iraq war if you count Iraqi soldiers. John Ewards says the figure is 90% if you talk coalition casualties. I thought Edwards could have avoided this mathematical exercise by stating simply that 1064 Americans were killed and 7531 were wounded in action and Dick Cheney can divide that by pi for all he cares.
10. In spite of the jabs by both parties I appreciated the civility of the debate, although I wish it had more policy analysis.
11. I thought that a couple of times Edwards really rattled Cheney when he talked about Halliburton. It was the only time Cheney fumbled for words and failed to maintain his papal posture.
12. I thought that Cheney rattled Edwards when he mentioned the tax loophole he took advantage of, although he recovered enough to shift the focus to Halliburton again.
13. What the hell is George Will wearing on top of his head?
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