10/3 Roundup: VP Debate Responses, House About to Vote

- Everybody's chattering about last night's VP debate.  The general consensus? Sarah Palin exceeded expectations, but Joe Biden won anyway.  The upshot? It probably won't affect the race very much.  Responses from around the web:

- Mark Halperin of Time gives out report cards: They both get a B.

- Andrew Romano at Newsweek: Joe Biden beat John McCain, and Sarah Palin beat Tina Fey.

- Daniel Politi of Slate: Nobody blew it, nobody blew us away.

- The New York Times: She didn't flunk, but Sarah Palin was still a terrible pick.

- DemfromCT at Kos: Not a gamechanger.

- Joan Walsh of Salon: Palin blew it.

- Ezra Klein at TAP: Expectations shmexpectations, Biden won.

- The Washington Post: Nobody won, nobody lost.

- Joe Klein of Time: Palin held her own, but Biden won.

- Greg Sargent of TPM: Obama is on the right side of the issues and Biden made that point well.

- David Brooks of the Times: Where was last night's Palin during Couric's interviews?

- John Dickerson of Slate: Winners: Palin and Biden.  Loser: John McCain.

- Howard Fineman at Newsweek: Palin scored points, but didn't win.

-  James Fallows at the Atlantic: Biden made no mistakes, Palin beat expectations.

- Ben Smith at Politico: Palin passed a pass/fail.

- Undecided voters: Biden won!

- In other, more consequential news, everyone is holding their breath as the House votes on the bailout proposal today. It's likely to pass, but Time says the Blue Dogs could be the key to the bill's fate. Paul Krugman says we're standing on the edge of the abyss, here.

- McCain pulled out of Michigan, and now his campaign is saying that it's all hanging on three states.  Three state's he's losing.

- Homer Simpson wants to vote for Barack Obama, but is eaten by a biased voting machine.

- Obama's got his priorities straight: If it's a double-Chicago, Cubs-White Sox World Series, he's suspending his campaign. 

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