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I'm going to predict that Sarah Palin does much better in the debate than expected.

It may not have been their intent, but the Republicans have played the expectations game beautifully so far. All she has to do is to go out and speak in complete sentences, and she'll be seen to outperform expectations.

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[r-ness.livejournal.com]

I think that's your bias.

I think the story for the last week or two has been how incompetent she is. All she needs to do is to demostrate that all that talk is overblown, and she's accomplished something. She doesn't need to look like she's better than Biden, as no one believes that now. So the only place she has to go is up. She just has to look vaguely plausible and she will have beaten expectations.

Now, if she fails to demostrate she's not incompetent, she will have failed. I'll certainly grant that. But that task is much easier than having to out-debate Biden (who, I'll observe, has a habit of sticking his foot in his mouth on occasion).

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

That would be the big concern for the Biden camp, definitely. He does have this way of shooting his mouth off.