Who won the debate? Biden or Ryan?

[Kasz216]

theprof00 said:

Kasz216 said:

theprof00 said:
Everyone just says "both sucked". What is a good debate then?
In two elections on vgc, I have not seen one debate called "good"

One of the Bush/Kerry debates was good on both sides... i forget which though.

I thought the "Lock box" debate was a good one for Gore/Bush even though Gore later got hammered about it.

It's funny how quickly republicans and democrats switched on that issue.  

 

But what's the qualification of it being good?

Talks about important issues?
THe candidate(s) do(es) really well?
The backdrop?

Mostly the second for me... but really all 3 fit.

The Candidates both did a good job of talking about their vision and articulating their plans while having disagreements over policy issues.

The Democratic Primaries for the 2004 election were like this as well.

Of the four people in the debates so far... the only one who really gave any sort of an idea about what he wanted to do with the presidency was Mitt Romney... and he was sketchy about some of the details.