Entertainment value 'huge' for Palin-Biden

October 01, 2008 Maybe the first McCain-Obama go-round wasn't as widely watched as expected, but Thursday night's vice presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden looks to be everything that their running mates' was not. After a series of interviews with "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric that raised eyebrows and blood pressures from all sides of the political spectrum as well as Tina Fey's caricature on "Saturday Night Live," there is growing evidence that Palin will be a big draw when she and Biden meet for the only time beginning at 9 p.m. ET at Washington University in St. Louis. A lot of people are anticipating this to be almost a 'Saturday Night Live' live, said Tammy Vigil, an assistant professor of communications at Boston University and a co-author of the upcoming book, The Third Agenda in U.S. Presidential Debates.

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