hello all! i expect you have been checking back all day, waiting for my response on the debate! well not to worry - here it is! first off, i'd like to point out a fallacy in the "so-called liberal media" - take the 2 washington newspapers, the post and the times. this morning here were the headline - post: "deep divide in domestic policy" times: "bush rips iraq flip flops" hmmm . . . which paper is bias here? ok, that's all. i'm done now.

on to the debate - we did great! well, maybe not great - and really no one did that well. cnn morning grind "kerry-3, bush -0: kerry was at his worst, bush was at his best, but kerry still won." i guess that games it out fairly well from this insiders perspective. that seems to be the consensous - here at the office everyone is convinced the election is over, or really it's Kerry's to lose. i don't believe there is any way bush can bounce back from these numbers, kerry is at 50 and bush is in the mid 40s. it's done. unless of course . . . every civic teacher's dream comes tru and there is a tie in the electoral college (very possible, maybe even probable this year) and the election goes to the house, where every state gets 1 vote - which means bush wins, again, without a mandate. how awesome would that be!? however, not to fear there is an erskwhile electoral college voter in west virginia who has pleged his support for bush, but has been telling people he might considering voting the other way should it come down to a tie. anyway, i guess that's all off topic. so yes, this debate went well, as well as the other debates anyway - i'll save my tirade on why these things are pointless and not real debates for another post. favorite lines of the evening? when bush called out the dan rather thing - that was terrible. or when he implied that homosexuality was a choice, that was also fabulous. what were your favorites?