I have to say she did fairly well in the debate. I also think that Biden far out classed her. Not only did he provide better answers, but he anticipated her responses and undid what ever she was going to say.
Palin at least gave, mostly, sensible, if highly conservative and cheerleader, answers. She worked through some of the hard questions fairly well, but she got lost on the “in my state” crap a few times. She also managed to segue at strange times into strange topics.
She also played up the mom card a little much and Biden pwned her on that.