Your Rections to the Third/Last Presidential Debate

[MrFun]

So what does everyone think?


I was watching it while grading peon (er, I mean, undergraduate) exams so I was not listening as intensely as with the last debates.


But from what I have seen and heard, I think I'm more ambivalent in terms of both candidates' performance. Maybe both of them did equally well this time??

[PLATO]

Bush very much won this one. Very strong on his issues. Kerry seemed to be on the defense most of the night.

[Jaguar]

Substantively, it was just the usual arguments and nothing particularly strong from either one. But Bush came across as very human, and he had some good quips, and on the whole he had better style.

[monkspider]

From what I've read on other forums, it sounds like this one was pretty even, with perhaps a very slight edge going to Kerry.

(-edit Although, I haven't watched the debate yet personally)

[Kidlicious]

Bush was asked if he thought homosexuality was a choice, and he said he didn't know.

**** he's retarded. I just turned the damn thing off.

[Jaguar]

Kerry reeled off a lot of statistics very fast, which gave me the impression that he's got a good handle on the facts, but he was fairly uninteresting and none of the arguments were particularly resounding.

[laurentius]

Bush 52 + 4 for the women jokes

Kerry 40

4 to the yahooing members of the audience

[MrFun]

I liked how Kerry expressed his respect to Bush's outreach in the immediate days after 9/11 and on the other hand, I laughed and enjoyed Bush's joke about his wife and daughters at the end of the debate.

[Jaguar]

My scores on all the debates together

1st presidential debate:
Bush 15
Kerry 65

2nd presidential debate:
Bush 45
Kerry 65

VP debate:
Cheney 75
Edwards 45

Last debate:
Bush 65
Kerry 55



These numbers are fairly arbitrary, but what the hell. It's supposed to give a general impression of how they performed each time.

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Bush did better than in the other two, but I still think Kerry won.

The problem is the standards are so low for Bush that even if he does mediocre, its considered a win. Thats sad.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Substantively it was even, but on style Bush finally won one.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by JimmyCracksCorn

The problem is the standards are so low for Bush that even if he does mediocre, its considered a win. Thats sad.

[Dis]

Kerry had a few good points here and there. But Bush seemed to get his overrall message accross better. Despite a few whacked out typical Bush comments (at least he did not meniton wood ).

Buch C+
Kerry D+

[MrFun]

How can you give Kerry an appalling D+?

[Defiant]

Bush won this one, Kerry was on the defensive and repeating himself, he seemed like Bush in the first debate.