Lots of reaction to last night's debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin, mostly positive.

David Brooks says Palin rebounded nicely from her disastrous one-on-one interviews.

Peggy Noonan agrees, and hits on the reasons why.

She killed. She had him at "Nice to meet you. Hey, can I call you Joe?" She was the star. He was the second male lead, the good-natured best friend of the leading man. She was not petrified but peppy.

The whole debate was about Sarah Palin. She is not a person of thought but of action. Interviews are about thinking, about reflecting, marshaling data and integrating it into an answer. Debates are more active, more propelled—they are thrust and parry. They are for campaigners. She is a campaigner. Her syntax did not hold, but her magnetism did. At one point she literally winked at the nation.

Noonan is right on. Politics is as much about style as substance, in my view, which is why a man with "a second-rate intellect, but a first-class temperament", as was said once about FDR, can be a great leader. Perhaps Sarah Palin can be a great leader, and perhaps not. But to do it she needs the kind of temperament and style that allows her to connect with her constituents, and she has that in spades.

Of course, the cool temperament and suave speaking style that defines Barack Obama is also combined, in him, with a first-class intellect. That saves him from his own inexperience, as Charles Krauthammer points out in this piece, and may lead him to win the election.

Of course, Obama is also aloof, at least according to the British Ambassador.

Fred Barnes also believes Palin started a comeback last night, and Bill Kristol believes if the House Republicans now help to pass a financial bailout plan, it might get McCain-Palin going in the right direction.