[Preechr]

I gotta say, I was pretty frustrated with Bush's performance most of the way through, but I think he pulled it out at the end.

Personally, I call it a draw, because even in my inebriated state I can tell they both failed to fully engage any relevant topic sufficiently. However, as a slightly buzzed American, I can see where Bush probably said what was needed, in his own special way, to make this debate entirely irrelevant to the outcome of the election. In that respect, as he's obviously the verbally disadvantaged of the two, Bush won this debate. Kerry really should have smooshed Dubya. I've been pretty sure Kerry's abysmal campaign to this point was due to the Clintonites that have infiltrated his campaign from the beginning, but now I'm pretty much blaming Kerry's failures on him alone.

He should have easily won this, and there's a question as to whether he did that. That means he lost.