[MizSterious]

I watched it all, and it seemed to be the case, at least to me.

[kjam22]

The questions were bias. But that's not what "made" the debate. Dubya had 45 minutes of talk time to smack Kerry. The campaign has chosen the humble, high road, distinguish the differences in our ideas ... method.

[JesseHousman]

It wasn't your imagination. I felt the same way, but then what would you expect with Jim Liar.

[rwfromkansas]

I say this as a person who used to think Lehrer was a good journalist and fairly balanced.

The questions last night were uncreative in addition to being very biased against the President.

Lehrer is just another lefty reporter who can't be objective. Sick.

[Arizona Carolyn]

IMO it was staged, questions fed in advance to Kerry who memorized a script and delivered accordingly. He only stumbled a couple of times when POTUS said something disarming to him... POTUS obviously expected more than 80 minutes of IRAQ and Afghanistan and 10 minutes on Iran and N. Korea -- and had about 30 minutes worth of material...

[rstevens]

I also noticed during the debate that Kerry's responses were very well timed, ending precisely when the red light came on. He was finished at exactly the instant the light went red. In the case of Bush, he seemed to be trying to come up with dialog in order to get to the finish light and seemed to miss the target repeatedly.

I came away with a feeling that Kerry knew in advance what his, and probably, what GW's questions were. Kerry appeared too well informed in his responses.

Even at that, I thought, and still think, GW prevailed.