. >>> pencive. let's play "hardball." >>> an interesting challenge to decide who won a political debate. if you accept the challenge as i have, you'd we are do it straight. don't pretend to be a judge if you're not willing to step responsibility of judging. last night i called for pence right off the bat. he acted like a grown-up. kaine seemed overrun. it was as if kaine couldn't stand hearing anything said well about donald trump and couldn't stand hearing anything said bad about hillary clinton. pence was sol if i had often mislethaling. kaine was forever trying to get his point in. sometimes successfully but not impressively. if you think this is how i look at them generally, you couldn't be more job myself job isn't to say high preferred on the issues. it is to say who i thought did well and advance his position during it. after trump's bad week last week, the big question is whether pence' strong performance was enough to reverse it toward clinton. before the face-off sunday night. so they have