Thursday, September 30, 2004
Debate
It was interesting. Kerry did better than I thought he would. Bored me a bit with his insistence of talking about building alliances. It may be true, but it doesn't really strike home as strongly as some other points he made.
Bush was in typical form. He gave a strong debate, was on message and stumbled a bit when he either moved off his mantras a bit or ran out of material on a particular topic.
The best part about the debate was the one minute rebuttle which certainly made it much more like a real debate than the initial idea they had agreed to.
I think I'd give the win narrowly to Kerry, but I don't know if it really changed too many minds. The democrats will say Kerry won, the Republics will give it clearly to Bush and Independents...we'll just have to see what the polls say.
The one thing that makes this interesting is that this was Kerry's weakest position against Bush and to have played it even or just a bit ahead makes the two upcoming debates into a nice possible dogfight.
Bush was in typical form. He gave a strong debate, was on message and stumbled a bit when he either moved off his mantras a bit or ran out of material on a particular topic.
The best part about the debate was the one minute rebuttle which certainly made it much more like a real debate than the initial idea they had agreed to.
I think I'd give the win narrowly to Kerry, but I don't know if it really changed too many minds. The democrats will say Kerry won, the Republics will give it clearly to Bush and Independents...we'll just have to see what the polls say.
The one thing that makes this interesting is that this was Kerry's weakest position against Bush and to have played it even or just a bit ahead makes the two upcoming debates into a nice possible dogfight.
