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Originally Posted by lordscarlet
I amazed that you are serious here. She blatantly ignored several questions. She even attempted to belittle the moderator and Biden by saying, "I'm sorry if I don't answer the questions the way you want me to." What that meant was, "I don't care about your silly little questions, and I'm just going to talk about what I want to."
Do candidates avoid questions in debates? Yes. Do they typically completely ignore a large number of questions and only talk about 2-3 issues? I don't think so. I could certainly be wrong as I haven't gone back to review the facts on that statement, but Governor Palin didn't care what the question was, she had a set of talking points she was permitted to discuss and would not veer from them.
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That comment you mentioned has a wide range of perception depending on where you stand. I'm not surprised that someone in D.C. would have a negative reaction to it, but there were also a lot of people that absolutely loved it as well and felt she was sticking it to what was perceived as a partisan moderator (I disagree with that, but it certainly was an issue in the run-up to the debate).
I don't think her evasion techniques were terribly polished, but I was actually glad to see her handling the questions much better than she did in the previously mentioned interviews, even if she only did briefly answer the question before moving to other talking points. While people in Washington D.C. greatly dislike her down-home style, there's a lot of people that support her even more if she's attacked by the political elite, even if it's a warranted attack.