Rate the Debate- Who Actually Won (and why)

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11. I watched it with the sound off and followed a live-blog on one of my

left-wing bias-confirming political/news sites (not this one.)

With the sound off, Walz looked like someone sincerely engaged in a conversation.

With the sound off, Vance looked like a shifty personal injury lawyer taping a commercial that'll run after midnight on one of the sketchier cable channels.

Tomorrow, Walz will go back to doing what he does best, being empathetic with voters as a genuinely nice man. Vance will go back to slime-slinging for his Orange overlord and for his oligarch billionaire owners.

I'll be surprised if anything that went on in this "debate" moves the needle at all with voters. But if you look at this election as a horse race, I guess it's important to declare a winner.

In the long run, I suspect the vice presidential debate will have minimal impact on the 2024 election day outcome. They never had any influence before.