You may be Kerry-ites, but it seems to be the consensus of all the pundits that Kerry won. An unscientific poll on MSNBC has Kerry the victor by 70%.
It's my assessment too. Bush sounded like a broken record. "We're making progress"; "We're doing the job"; "It's hard work"; "A free Iraq is good for democracy." He kept repeating his spin points and delivered very little substance. He also flustered, flubbed, hesitated, stuttered, sighed, and took abnormally long, uncomfortable pauses. He also seemed to get testy and petulant a couple of times. And in the cutaways, he had an expression on his face that made him look like a befuddled chimp. Kerry was composed, collected, and stay on point. And, I thought, answered the accusations quite well. He helped himself tonight.
Does everybody think the real issue of this election is going to be The War on Terror (although one could say that Iraq had nothing to do with the War on Terror until Bush invaded it)?
MSNBC had an undecided focus group watching the debate. They all thought Kerry won the debate, they all were leaning toward Kerry afterward...their main concerns were jobs and health care. Could be "It's the economy, stupid!" once again.
I don't know why the Democrats haven't invoke the "Are you better off now than you were four years ago" line? I think most people would answer "No. Our personal and national security aren't better. Our personal and national finances aren't better. Our Health Care is not better. The cost of our perscription medicines aren't better. Our job situation isn't better. Our civil liberties and personal freedoms in our own country aren't better."
By the by, now that the Log Cabin Republicans aren't endorsing Bush, where do our gay Republicans stand these days?
