From Salon’s The big veep showdown: “As Palin and Biden take their places behind their dueling lecterns on Thursday night, it is worth remembering that this is the debate almost guaranteed to raise the ire of both Democratic and Republican partisans alike. Democrats are primed to see in every Palin answer evidence that she is ill-equipped for a stage larger than the Wasilla town hall. And Republicans will see in every Biden response contempt for the moose-hunting values that made America great. The sound and fury are sure to be savored by viewers of all stripes, but great TV moments (especially among the political second bananas) rarely decide elections.”