Kerry Actually DID Win the Debate…Before He LOST It! << bs alert

[drfemoe]

by Noel Sheppard

Well, sports fans, we’ve now had four full days to review, recount, recant, refute, reexamine, and, possibly most important, request answers to polling questions concerning what transpired in the debate last Thursday night. And, with much fanfare, the winner is…George W. Bush!

Now, I know that some of the headline numbers from recently released polls quite suggest otherwise. And, to be sure, if this were a high school debate, we would probably all agree that Kerry did a much better job than the President, and, as a result, was the clear victor. However, this wasn’t a high school debate. This is one leg of a very long horse race that has been vied for lo these past fifteen months. As such, you can’t view any debate in a Presidential campaign by itself without trying to understand how it fits into the grand scheme of said campaign. Or, put another way, Democratic pundits right now are behaving like A’s and Giants fans who were ecstatic that their teams won yesterday even though they had already been eliminated from the playoffs.
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Let’s examine this even further by looking at the Gallup results just released this morning. According to Gallup, prior to the debate, on the issue of who would be better to handle Iraq, Bush was leading Kerry by 14%. Now, after the debate, Bush is leading by 7%, with 51% still saying that the President will better handle the situation (down from 54%).
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http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/s/sheppard/04/sheppard100504.htm

UGH! All they have are polls and are breaking their backs patting themselves upon it!

This is disgusting. Why am I not surprised?

>> bs alert . obvious RW pundit