Nightline (ABC) - 2008-10-02
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[0:05] Tonight on Night Line, high stakes. It
[0:07] was all eyes on Sarah Palin's
[0:09] performance at tonight's vice
[0:11] presidential debate. Did she rise to the
[0:13] occasion? Moment of truth. We're live in
[0:16] St. Louis with the verdict on Palin
[0:18] versus Biden. So, who won and who might
[0:21] have hurt their presidential candidate?
[0:23] And the grades are in. George
[0:25] Stephanopoulos is back to score
[0:27] tonight's faceoff in the Night Line
[0:29] Report Card
[0:31] >> from the global resources of ABC News
[0:33] with Martin Basher and Cynthy Mcbaden in
[0:36] New York City and Terry Moran at the
[0:39] vice presidential debate in St. Louis,
[0:41] Missouri. This is Night Live, October
[0:44] 2nd, 2008.
[0:47] >> Good evening everyone. I'm Terry Moran.
[0:49] Well, Saturday Night Live might have to
[0:51] change their script now. Sarah Palin,
[0:54] much mocked by comedians and others
[0:56] after a couple of rocky weeks on the
[0:58] trail. She came into this hall tonight,
[1:00] which they're tearing down behind me,
[1:02] with so much pressure on her. The vice
[1:04] presidential debate that ended here at
[1:05] Washington University a little while
[1:07] ago, was so eagerly anticipated. Would
[1:10] Palin somehow collapse into incoherence
[1:12] or ignorance on that stage, as the
[1:14] parodies and some pundits predicted?
[1:16] Would Joe Biden run off at the mouth or
[1:18] commit some dreadful faux paw? Well, in
[1:21] the end, this turned out to be a pretty
[1:22] normal debate. Substantive, not terribly
[1:25] revealing, tightly structured and
[1:27] formatted with polite, open-ended
[1:29] questions, giving both candidates plenty
[1:31] of opportunities to fall back on
[1:33] scripted responses and stump speeches.
[1:35] The st