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AuH2O
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« on: October 14, 2004, 09:28:01 AM »

Drudge is reporting 26.0/36 share for the debate last night, as compared to 29.1/40 for the first debate. He is quite reliable with regard to ratings.

I was somewhat surprised how high the ratings were, because of the baseball games and general debate/campaign fatigue.

Politically, this clearly helps Bush, because we can assume many of the people watching the 3rd debate also saw the first; he could not but help his standing with people that witnessed the first debate.

This certainly seems to suggest there remains a high interest level in the race.
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« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2004, 10:05:36 AM »

AuH20's logic seems solid.  Bush clearly did better in this last debate than in the first.  Logically then, a proportion of those who were put off by Bush's crap performance in debate #1 might be won back by watching debate #3.

However, the snap polls say that Kerry won by a margin as decisive as in the first debate.  Are the snap polls just wrong?  Or has the public simply come to believe that Bush can't win a debate against Kerry?

The numbers do seem to indicate the public interest is still high.  But which candidate does that benefit, if any?
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« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2004, 10:07:36 AM »

"Kerry won" does not mean "I won't vote Bush"

Or that "I'm less likely to vote Bush"

Or that "I'm not more likely to vote Bush"
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