So, Obama gets endless questions about his associations, etc., etc., to the point that Stephanopoulos got ... too enthusiastic.
Sarah Palin?
Doesn't have to answer questions about troopergate, specifically the refusal of her staff to cooperate in an investigation. These are fundamental questions about her folksy view of Government and her relationship to the electorate (at least as much as her take on her own popularity in Alaska).
Other than that, Gov Palin's performance was like a nice flute recital, in which one overlooks the amateur character of it because she was able to achieve the caliber of a nice, Regnery-fed, College Republican.
And don't count Joe out. He may yet come up with an equivalent of that stupendous phrase he used on Giuliani, "A Noun, a verb, and 9/11"....