Joe Biden.

Joe Biden just won my heart.

I agree with him on foreign policy, respect him as senator. But my perspective on him just completely changed.

There's a real person under there.


ETA: More detail, for those who didn't want to watch the debates.

I showed up with a fork and knife for some Palin schadenfreude pie. But she did well, disappointing me greatly. Yeah, she was vague and folksy and didn't seem to be saying very much, but there was a lot of feel good language that made you smile now and think later.

At first she came across as the "real person" in the debate.

Then, after she'd casually rattled off her lines about her family for the third or fourth time, Biden came back with, "You know, men are single parents, too" and the genuine choking up over his son...

... suddenly, she started looking like a carefully manufactured product, while he was the real thing.

I didn't expect the debates to showcase Biden.