First Debate
It’s probably because my expectations have been “managed” by a year of wondering what the hell John Kerry was doing in a presidential race, but tonight’s debate was the most confident, persuasive, and charismatic I’ve ever seen him. I can’t play the meta-meta-meta-analysis game and figure out who “won", but I can’t see how Bush’s repeating himself endlessly would convert swing voters to his camp.
Also, I learned that apparently the way for free-trade Democrats to shore up his labor base is to use the word “outsource” to criticize any policy he opposes, to cover up the fact that he doesn’t oppose actual outsourcing.