NYT: I hope others aren't concerned with style over subtance

Just went further in the the NYT Liveblog for this nugget:

If the split screen during last week’s presidential debate betrayed a slow and unresponsive president, it is revealing something else tonight.

Mr. Biden has been an explosion of reactions all night: laughing, rolling his eyes, grimacing, sighing, furrowing his brow and practically bursting out of his skin to jump at every answer.

The question is: How will it play?

Among hard-core supporters, it will probably be a good thing, giving them the sense that the vice president is aggressively challenging the Republican ticket.

But to others — maybe independents — it may just look as if the vice president had way too many cups of coffee, or maybe Red Bulls.

Shorter NYT Reporters: wouldn’t it be a shame if other people were paying attention to style over substance.  I wonder where they could get that idea?

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