News Analysis

Vice President Joe Biden spent much of Thursday night’s vice presidential debate smiling – often incredulously – at the comments of rival Paul Ryan.

He wasn’t the only Democrat smiling.

Thanks to President Obama’s widely-panned debate performance last week, supporters of the current administration have been despondent over polls that show Mitt Romney pulling even in the race. It wasn’t just that the president’s national polling lead had disappeared – it was that the man leading the charge was so passive and passionless when given the chance to make his case to the American people.

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