I declare this to be so. As you guys know, I have been very fair in judging these debates, I believed that Kerry easily won the first and the second was a tie.
Bush had a comand of the facts. He seemed to be energized from the get go. He stayed on the offensive.
One thing that I noticed was that, when the question was asked about the candidates' wives, Kerry did not mention Teresa much. Instead, he skipped directly to talking about his mother.
What was up with that?
I agree with your assessment.
As to Theresa, her negatives are even higher than John's.
Kerry needed to clearly win this debate, Bush merely needed to tie.
Bush got a win.
Notice how Kerry was the one who wanted to get out of there as fast as possible.
Also note, Bush scored with the white female vote, which is the key to the election.
