Oh, I definitely think she got over the bar of “what she needed to do.” But I think she’ll have to keep showing rapid improvement.
And make no mistake: I’m glad the consensus here is that she did well. This place is a great barometer of how the Republican evangelical and conservative base sees her. And it’s clear from this thread that the base isn’t disappointed in her performance. So I take great heart in that.
My main worry is about how that interview would play with fence sitters. that’s the lens I tried to view it through.
What liberals don’t seem to realize is that the independents LOVE her. The “fence sitters” are no longer “fence sitters”, and the more that Obama keeps attacking her, the more the independents are turning away from Obama. They see the attacks as attacks on them and their values.
I read a remark from an independent in Michigan that said that what the Democrats don’t seem to realize is that the middle of the country and small town America is not fly over country. It IS the country. The elitist left is so out of touch with America, that it is sad. The left constantly underestimates conservativism.