Pundits graded Palin on a curve while the voters graded her against their standards for the office of the vice president. What was interesting last night was watching the pundits, particularly those on the right, struggle to spin who won the debate after seeing the instant polls, which showed that viewers overwhelmingly thought Biden beat Palin.
Yglesias puts it well:
It’s almost as if ordinary people don’t grade these things on a complicated “expectations” curve. When someone shows up and seems slightly dimwitted they don’t think to themselves “well, she’s not quite as dumb as I thought — what a triumph!” They think, “wow, she seems slightly dimwitted.”
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