Republicans are so quick to freak out. He did not lose and the sheep mentality of "other people think he lost so he must have" is not a substitute for good analysis.
He repeated himself as he always has in debates. It is his technique and he does this becaus it works for him. It is called "staying on message", exactly what the Dems talked about disrupting. It didn't work.
The latest line on the Iwoa Electronic Market Numbers indicate a debate win for GW"
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Latest IEM Electronic Market Numbers In (Bush Reverses Pre-Debate Decline, wins "Debate Day"
Iowa Electronic Market ^ | September 30th, 2004 | Remember_Salamis
Posted on 09/30/2004 10:32:18 PM PDT by Remember_Salamis
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The debates style was to pressure President Bush to defend his policies while leaving Kerry's decades long policies of shame unexposed and off limits.