This morning I scanned the collection of relevant abstracts at Lucianne.com. These are admittedly from conservative-friendly sites but their consensus is that Biden's performance last night was, for Democrats, a "Goldilocks" outcome which is paradoxically also a worst-case scenario.
It was not perfect enough to convince all and sundry that Biden is fit and ready to do 4 more years. Nor so bad his exit from the race becomes the Democratic consensus. He was, in Goldilocks parlance neither too hot or too cold, in this case neither too healthy nor too sick to force a consensus to emerge.
Some will see Biden's "glass" half full, others will see it half empty. Few minds were changed, ergo it didn't help. I presume those supporting Biden view it as a "win" for his continued candidacy, which will continue.
Stephen Green calls last night "an ideal result, with a wounded Biden shuffling slowly along the road to election defeat."
