I, for one, am hoping for a debate that includes facts — meaning statements that can be verified as true or false. Bill Adair of politifact.com made an interesting observation during a CNN interview:
It is going to be an interesting debate. We have found in trying to check the two vice presidential candidates that Senator Biden offers lots of factual statements that we try to verify and sometimes are right, sometimes aren’t.
Governor Palin has been a little trickier for us because .. if you look at her recent interview with Katie Couric, there aren’t a lot of facts that she states. So we’re not sure that we’ll get a lot of facts to check from her. But we’ll be watching and folks can get politifact.com and see what we found.
Another (more established, I think) fact-checking site is factcheck.org. I wonder if they will fact-check the above statement? 
I could not bring myself to file this in the “Public Policy” category, so I am filing it in “Politics.” That’s the best I can do given the realities of the situation; i.e. she was chosen primarily for electability and less for Vice Presidential qualifications.
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