Hello and welcome to this late political gab fest for Friday, October 3rd.

I'm John Dickerson here with David Plotz and Hanna Rosen.

So we have the Rosen Plots.

Klan.

Klan.

Klan.

And we're going to talk today about...

Hanna Rosen is my wife, incidentally. Yeah, I guess everybody doesn't know that, yeah. As well as being a contributor to the... So I'm the Sarah to his Todd. That's how we think of it. That's right. I'm the Todd? Yes, I'm the Sam. Well, then you've already... Are you the Hillary to my bill? I'd rather be the Sarah to your Todd. Okay. Because I like to think of you, you know, snowboarding with a broken leg and that kind of thing.

Snowmobiling.

Snowmobiling. Snowmobiling. Sorry. I did go snowmobiling, remember this winter? It was awful. I wouldn't be a good Todd. You know, you've already talked more than Todd talked in the year 2007. We also have our daughter. Our daughter is actually here in the taping room. Noah. She doesn't want to speak though.

She's drawing. And I also like for you to think of me hunting wolves from a helicopter. That's an image I like to cherish. Okay. Okay. Good. Uh, so now, uh, that, uh, we've gone through the couple's therapy portion of the show. We're going to talk about three things.

The first is the debate.

The second, the Palin Biden debate.

The second is sort of the general state of the race.

There were some interesting developments this week because in previous weeks there haven't been.

And then the third topic is the bailout bill.

I should note that I've had two hours of sleep flying back from St. Louis,

so if I seem even more ridiculous than usual, that's it. So, Hannah, your thoughts about this

debate last night? The debate last night. You know, I thought it was a really great debate,

like not just for the reasons that I thought it would be, which is to just watch the spectacle

of it. It was actually a good,

legitimate debate, like they had legitimate disagreements. The thing she called him out on were

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