National View: No Clear Win is a Win For Obama
Vice President Joe Biden appears to have done what he needed to do against Paul Ryan. He was never going to get, nor did he really to do to Congressman Ryan, what Mitt Romney did to Obama. What he needed to do was be fiery, combative, call out what the Obama campaign is calling lies and deception, and fight for their record.
On Thursday night, for the most part, he did just that. The two most widely available polls largely reflect that. A CNN poll of debate-watchers gave Mr. Ryan a slight edge of 48 to 44, basically a tie. A CBS poll of undecided voters found it was 50 to 31 for the Vice President with another 19 percent calling it a tie.