By Mark Lucas
News Editor
Paid Republican mouthpieces have been less successful in persuading voters to ignore the evidence of their own eyes in the wake of the vice presidential debate.
On Thursday night, Democratic Vice President and blabbermouth Joe Biden faced his steel-pumping Republican opponent Paul Ryan in their first and only debate. Despite his reputation for slips of the tongue, Biden concisely marshaled the facts without misspeaking for 90 minutes. By contrast, fact checkers after the debate found that Ryan had lied about ... well, everything. Ever since then, the supposedly impartial pundits of the conservative-owned media claimed the debate was a tie. Many even faulted Biden with being disrespectful, undignified and generally over-the-top. These same commentators criticized Democratic President and former Rastafarian Barack Obama for being too listless and subdued in his first debate. So, according to the "objective" talking heads, no matter what the Democrats do, they cannot possibly win a debate, and the Republicans can do no wrong.
This time, the public isn't buying the propaganda, according to early polls about the vice presidential debate. A CNN survey of 381 registered voters showed Ryan won the debate 48% to Biden's 44%. With a 5% margin of error, that is a virtual tie, especially since most of those polled have already decided who to vote for anyway. However, a CBS poll of 431 UNDECIDED voters found that 50% thought Biden won, 39% thought Ryan won and 19% said the debate was a tie. That's pretty decisive for a group that is, by nature, indecisive.
Now, let's see how much media coverage these new polls get compared to the polls that favored Republican presidential nominee and chronic flipflopper Mitt Romney a week ago.
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