"Tad E." wrote in message ...
"Mark S. Holden" wrote in message
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Lockhart and McCurry are part of Sen. Kerry's team. Their guy is
down in the polls. Why would they overstate the President's
performance?

The challenger will probably see a couple of point bounce from being
seen on the same stage as the President, as that's normal unless
someone says or does something remarkably stupid.

But nobody made a huge gaffe, few people were undecided before the
debate, and I doubt many were swayed one way or another.

You are making way too much sense for this NG.

That's Mr. Holden's stock-in-trade - somebody has to be the adult,
right?

Personally, I'd give Kerry a slight edge just for smoothness of
presentation, but frankly, both of them simply repeated what we'd
heard before with minor adjustments as they went along, and I doubt
that either one made a big impression on anybody (except my wife, who
is so disgusted with Bush for so many reasons that she'd be more
impressed with a toadstool). It was a kind of a blah debate overall.

I wanna see Harry Truman or Teddy Roosevelt debate sometime. Maybe in
the next life.

Bruce Jensen