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Tonight's debate was fast moving, covered a lot of ground. it was a strong performance by vice president biden. it was not a weak performance by paul ryan, but was tonight's event enough to blunt the definite momentum that the romney/ryan side had after last week's clear presidential debate win? lawrence o'donnell is in the spin room tonight with the planned parenthood president. over to you. >> thank, rachel. we've heard something new tonight, i think, about the romney/ryan position on abortion. mitt romney has been saying there is no legislation that i've been contemplating while at the same...

The week afterwards in the vp debate. democrats this year are hoping for that same kind of dynamic to play out. so honestly, the stakes for tomorrow night's debate between vice president joe biden and paul ryan could not be higher. and no one on the obama side is trying to play down this debate as if it is not important. the romney/ryan side did make a kind of hilarious feint this week at trying to play down how well paul ryan is expected to do at this debate. this is mr. romney trying to do that on cnn yesterday. >> i don't know how paul will deal with this debate. obviously, the vice preside...

Dissipated, partly on the heels of dick cheney's strong performance against john edwards the week afterwards in the vp debate. democrats this year are hoping for that same kind of dynamic to play out. so honestly, the stakes for tomorrow night's debate between vice president joe biden and paul ryan could not be higher. and no one on the obama side is trying to play down this debate as if it is not important. the romney/ryan side did make a kind of hilarious feint this week at trying to play down how well paul ryan is expected to do at this debate. this is mr. romney trying to do that on cnn ye...

Night, we're prepared for that. paul ryan has a choice to make. and he has years of strong commitments and convictions that he's laid out, on everything from abortion to taxes to medicare to medicaid. we know where he stands. so tomorrow night he has a choice to make. does he stand by what he has said and done over the course of his career? or does he do what mitt romney did and try to run from those positions and hide them, because he knows that they will ultimately hurt him in a general election? >> stephanie, you led the obama campaign's pushback today after mr. romney tried to get away wit...

About to have a new seismic event in this campaign in tomorrow's vice presidential debate, one that functions the same way that this same debate schedule worked out in 2004, for a very different incumbent president. in 2004, it was the vice president's solid performance in his debate that essentially stopped the bleeding for his incumbent party. that's what happened in 2004 after john kerry just destroyed president george w. bush in the first '04 debate and kerry got a big bump in the polls thereafter. but that bump eventually dissipated, partly on the heels of dick cheney's strong performance...