He didn't do all that badly, in retrospect -- and polls over the next couple of days will probably reinforce that. There's no questioning his sincerity and appeal to ordinary people; Kerry's major problem is that he spoke TOO well -- and sounds too similar to that effete jack@ss who disgraced himself and his nation in his testimony before the U.S. Senate back in 1971.
He didn't do bad...but it could just be a long day..look I'm his age, and I'm up a 5 every moring..I run almost daiuly, and sometimes, by 10 PM , and that's after a leisurely dinner, and an hour in front of the tube, or the puter, I feel the eyelids getting heavy..