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• Wednesday, October 1, 2008 12:52 AM

  betting odds: 30% chance she faints

  i want to get this on the record: palin will hand biden his head thursday night. what else can she do? she can't take part in a legitimate discussion of the issues. oh, she can skim the surface on a few topics, and regurgitate some talking point lines, but then what? she's got 90 minutes of airtime to fill (well, ok, her half is just 45 minutes.) that's a lot of dead air. so there's only one option left: attack, attack, attack! don't stop attacking!!! she's going to get out the wood chipper. (remember the end of "fargo"??? -maybe that accent ain't a coincidence.) sarah will walk out in a pink suit jacket (it has to be pink) and vamp a bit, then go right for joe's throat. the night ends with her clutching his still beating heart as gwen ifill signs off. (if anybody can tell me what her other options are, i'm all ears.)

  but how it plays out is the better question. deeply red conservatives will eat it up and call her a hero - and say they've recaptured the momentum. will the rest of the country see it for what it is: a sad, pathetic display by an adrift campaign that needs to be put down? (i hope so, but fear not: mccain up by 4 by next week.)

  but i will hedge my bet: there's a 30% chance she faints 15 minutes in. the back of her head audibly "clunking" on the stage. later, biden is criticized by hannity for freezing up and not offering her his water. (obama up by 18)

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