Thank You Sarah Palin: You Delivered A Massive Audience! We Win Now.

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Friday October 03, 2008 · 10:30 AM PDT

2008/10/03 · 10:30

Thank You Gov. Sarah Palin, you honestly delivered exactly what I'd hoped... Had it not been for your muppet level ineptness and widespread expectation that you'd eat Boogers on Stage, I don't think the ratings would have busted out...

Last night's debate totaled a 45.0 overnight meter-market household rating, according to Nielsen
That's 42% higher than Friday's presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama, which scored a collective 31.6 rating among the broadcast and cable networks.

It's also a stunning 60% higher than the 2004 debate between Dick Cheney and John Edwards. In fact, the figure surpasses any presidential debate since 1992's second bout between Bill Clinton, Ross Perot and George Bush

I'd be worried, that is if it weren't for Joe smokin' ya last night and even outdoing Obama vs. McCain on points...

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Joe Klein, Mr. CW himself...

Talk straight she didn't, with only a few exceptions. She talked talking points. And when the talking points concerned areas where she didn't know diddly, she didn't talk them very convincingly. Indeed, there were times I got the distinct impression that she didn't understand the points she was talking about (on the vice president's constitutional powers, for example).

The fact that Palin made it through the debate without running off the stage shouting, "I can't do this!" should not obscure the fact that there was only one person tonight whom anyone with any sense—even John McCain, I imagine—would trust as President. Biden's performance was strong and, happily, gimmick free. He used no gotcha soundbites, no consultant-driven silliness—a fact driven home by the lameness of Palin's snark lines like, "Say it ain't so, Joe" and—pace, Gipper—"There you go again, talking about the past."