I watched the debate and I thought Ryan "won", but mostly because of his demeanor and not really because of anything he said. He did get some good points across but Biden had pretty good rebuttals.
Biden's constant grinning and eye rolling was annoying. I also thought his smiling while condescendingly explaining that Iran isn't close to having a bomb because they currently don't have a container to put enriched uranium into to form a weapon was irresponsible.
In the battle of closing statements--a clear win by Ryan.
If I were going to split 100 points I'd give it Ryan 52%, Biden 48%.
Here's what I found very interesting. CNN replayed the debate at 11:00 (central). In the replay they had a real-time graph at the bottom of the screen showing the reactions of undecided voters to the debate as it unfolded. As the candidates spoke the graph would go upwards if the viewers thought positively about the things being said, and the graph would go downwards if they thought negatively about what was being said. I re-watched the first half hour of the debate keeping my eye on the rolling graph. Ryan was almost always in positive territory on the graph! Biden was mostly neutral or slightly negative and at times ventured into positive graph territory. Judging by that methodology Ryan won the debate big time.
Biden's constant grinning and eye rolling was annoying. I also thought his smiling while condescendingly explaining that Iran isn't close to having a bomb because they currently don't have a container to put enriched uranium into to form a weapon was irresponsible.
In the battle of closing statements--a clear win by Ryan.
If I were going to split 100 points I'd give it Ryan 52%, Biden 48%.
Here's what I found very interesting. CNN replayed the debate at 11:00 (central). In the replay they had a real-time graph at the bottom of the screen showing the reactions of undecided voters to the debate as it unfolded. As the candidates spoke the graph would go upwards if the viewers thought positively about the things being said, and the graph would go downwards if they thought negatively about what was being said. I re-watched the first half hour of the debate keeping my eye on the rolling graph. Ryan was almost always in positive territory on the graph! Biden was mostly neutral or slightly negative and at times ventured into positive graph territory. Judging by that methodology Ryan won the debate big time.
RIOLES!!!!!