Couple of observations:
-Ryan did OK, not as well as I would have expected, or liked him to, just OK.
-Biden, while he did what he was charged with and played hard to rally the base, was about as un-Vice Presidential and as un-professional as I've ever seen. Wonder how his smuggery, dismissiveness and condescension will play with women, who historically have very little taste for rude, brutish politicians. He also seemed to come across as a total career politician, which independents have historically viewed warily.
-Was definitely nice for Biden to have one of Obama's personal friends as the moderator.
-Ryan seemed overly polite and patient, maybe a conscious strategy by his handlers? Not sure of its effectiveness.
The biggest thing that stood out to me was the comment that Biden made regarding "death panels." First it was striking because Ryan didn't actually mention death panels, but what stood out to me was Biden's statement "You know, I heard that death panel argument from Sarah Palin. It seems that every vice presidential debate, I hear this kind of stuff about panels..." This really struck me as odd, because Ryan didn't actually mention panels, but rather addressed the very real fact that Obamacare proposes a board to impose cost controls. But more importantly, the statement is even odder, because Palin never talked about "death panels" in her 2008 debate with Biden, because Obamacare hadn't even been proposed at that point. The term "death panel" wasn't used until late 2009. Interesting that the left claims that Palin is so unimportant, yet Biden boldly lies simply to take a cheap shot at her.