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"I didn't say that did I."

Then I'm not sure what you are saying. I'll repeat my central thesis...

Every poll taken in the immediate aftermath of the Bide/Palin debate indicates that the public's perception of that debate was that Biden won handily, but that Palin didn't embarrass herself.

I've never seen a single scientific poll that either proclaimed the debate a tie, or that said the public believed that Palin won.

I personally thought that they both gave sophomoric performances in that debate, which is what I was expecting from Joe Biden. I, like another poster, thought that Palin missed a number of very easy opportunities to take Biden to the woodshed. But, because of her lack of legislative and debate experience, those opportunities passed her by. That's all I'm saying.

That's fine. You may be right about the polls, that was not the way I remembered it. My unclear comment to you was to say I couldn't get a link to look at the polls.

My impression of the 3 debates was that Obama looked smarter and better than McCain, and he came off as an oddity as well as old. McCain was a horrible debater.

For the veep debate, with all the hype about Biden, I thought he was sophomoric, very bad with the facts (and he was), and quite overblown as a debater. She may not have rocked the world, but she held her own against the one who was supposedly steeped in foreign policy.

My take. No need to be upset here.