Palin v Biden: Debate of the season: The Swamp The Swamp  Live-
blogging the vice presidential debate: Join us here for the big
show.  Posted October 2, 2008 11:00 PM Biden and Palin in
debate.jpg  "Can I call you Joe?'' Sarah Palin asks Joe Biden at
the outset of the debate. (Photo by Bob Pearson / EPA)  The
Swamp  by Mark Silva and updated at 11:00 pm EDT  Joe Biden did
very well in debate tonight.  He was supposed to.  Sarah Palin
did very well in debate tonight.  She had to.  So it would seem
that both candidates for vice president fulfilled their missions
tonight in their one and only televised debate of the canpaign.
Palin in debate.jpg  They got personal, both speaking
endearingly of their families -- Biden choking back a tear, it
seemed, when it came to the death of his first wife and child in
a car accident many years ago They both made their commoner's
roots clear -- a friend of "Joe Six-pack,'' as Palin put it, a
"Home Depot'' shopper, as Biden put it.  They both covered
domestic and foreign affair