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October 13, 2004
JK v GW III

I'm a bit too tired to really go into a major analysis of the last debate, but here's some quick thoughts.

I think -- and apparently I'm not alone -- that Kerry ran away with it. He seemed calm, measured, confident, and dare I say it, presidential. He clearly has a command of the facts and a good mind and he showed that once again tonight. Once again I thought he missed a few opportunities to bust GW in a big fat lie, but that's probably okay. He did what he needed to do.

Bush, in my opinion, looked terrible. And I'm not just saying that because I think he's one of the more vile human beings to ever walk the earth. I'm sure that has something to do with it, but I did really try to watch the debate as if he were somehow worthy of any sort of respect.

In stark comparison to Kerry, Bush hesitated, he hemmed and hawed, and most glaringly, he made really inappropriate and just plain bad jokes. He laughed when nothing was funny. He tried to josh around with the moderator (they're friends), but he came off looking like he's not taking the whole thing very seriously. He offered no concrete plans or policies, just tried, and failed, to attack Kerry on his record. Kerry swatted down most of the attacks deftly.

This looks very good for the good guys. Provided the momentum and spin stays on Kerry's side for the next week or so, and the administration doesn't pull some Osama out of their hat two days before the election, which is always a possibility, I think we're in a good position. Naturally, they could just go ahead and steal it, but we'll deal with that possibility if/when we have to.

Even the poll on Foxnews.com has Kerry winning the debate 53% to 46% after nearly 300,000 votes. Other sites such as MSNBC show an even bigger margin of victory for Kerry.

Awesome.

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