For all of the talk about Gwen Ifill’s potential conflict, the veteran journalist’s performance as moderator of last night’s vice-presidential debate was well-received.

This from Foon Rhee, a Boston Globe political editor writing on the paper’s blog:

The biggest winner in the vice presidential…

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Approximately 100 Democratic partisans gathered at the Pageant are out for blood.
“It’s like the Romans in the ampitheatre,” said Mary Wertsch of University City.
Wertsch declined an invitation to join her husband at a Wash U grad student watch party.
“I wanted to be with like…

Greg Jonsson, our reporter at the Sarah Palin rally at the Chaifetz Arena at St. Louis University, quotes GOP

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consultant John Hancock as saying Palin is about to “confound the pundits and confuse the liberal media.” He expects her to “absolutely, thoroughly wipe…

This from P-D reporter Greg Jonsson at the Chaifetz Arena on the St. Louis University campus, where GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is expected to appear after the debate:

A long line of people are flowing past security and entering…

I caught up with Gov. Matt Blunt outside the debate venue earlier this afternoon between TV interviews. Blunt had a few thoughts on Gov. Sarah Palin and what she needs to do tonight and in coming weeks.

Blunt specifically said he’d…

U.S. Sen Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri, shared these thoughts today outside the debate hall at the Wash U campus:

Tonight’s VP debate at Washington University is going to draw eyes and ears from across the country and the globe. Every word will be analyzed including the questions from moderator Gwen Ifill, from PBS News.

I took a stroll yesterday along Delmar…