Biden did okay

You don't have to be smart to win one of these things, or at least hold your own. Look at Bush debating Gore. Look at any debate between creationists and scientists. It's a debate being judged by rubes and "low information voters". Sarah Palin did pretty well against Biden when they debated.

Winning a political debate doesn't mean you've actually made coherent arguments for you position. Look at Romney. He didn't defend any of his positions. He abruptly made up new ones and left Obama in the dust.

But Biden did pretty well. He was able to cite enough figures that he seemed to have a far greater depth of knowledge than that wormy guy was arguing with.

But here's one problem.

There was a study that discovered this. A certain percentage of voters are unaware that there are political differences. They don't know that there's any difference of opinion. They think that everyone wants the same thing and that political debates are "bickering". They can't understand why politicians won't stop bickering and just do what everybody wants.

I don't remember what percentage of the voters believe this, but I remember that it was the same percentage that voted for Ross Perot.

It may be, with things getting more polarized, that these idiots are wising up. There may be fewer of them than there used to be.