Agree 100%...she was much more fair then I expected. I appreciate her a little more now.
I agree, Fester. I was completely expecting Gwen to throw some soft balls to Edwards and save the tough questions for Cheney (and I think Edwards expected that too), but she had some really good questions for both of them. Isn't she with CBS? Maybe her affiliation with CBS made her realize that people will be watching the content of her questions very closely, in light of the forgery scandal.
I agree....was negative about her at first, but she did a GREAT job.
I agree. She did a decent job for someone with liberal/socialist leanings.
Maybe some of the negative feedback Lehrer got from the first debate filtered down to Ifill.
Agree. I thought she was extremely good. She actually asked Edwards some tough questions. Amazing. That is what threw off Edwards. He didn't expect to have to answer anything.
"Ditto"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134579,00.html
I agree. Ifill did an even-handed job.
GREAT job Ms. Ifill!
Agreed.
She did a fine job and occasionally empathized with VP Cheney vis a vis Edwards behavior.
A couple of times Gwen's voice tone in asking Edwards questions seemed to indicate that Edwards/Kerry positions had her somewhat confused, and the question was asked for clarification---which didn't come forth easily.
Edwards spend much of the time defending Kerry positions and he seemed strained while doing it. It was sort of -- I have to defend the top of our ticket even though his position isn't mine.
Agree, she was an excellent moderator and asked fair and balanced questions....
I agree. I was expecting the worst and she did a terrific job.
If there is one criticism of her performance it might be that all too often she let both candidates go back and expound on answers that they gave a question or two before. Once or twice might have been OK, but both Edwards and Cheney did it constantly until you couldn't be sure in some cases whether they ever answered the question just posed to them. She might have done a better job of reigning that in but other than that I give her a solid A.
Bravo! I told my wife right before the debate started that we could expect biased questions in favor of Edwards. We were both pleasantly surprised at the questions she asked, so I too must offer cudos her way!
Totally agree. Gwen Ifill balanced the questions. Too bad she didn't moderate the first debate.
Hear, Hear!
I agree.
I must disagree. The final question was teed up for John Edwards and he whiffed. She asked why they thought the country was so divided. "Mr. Edwards, please tell us about the two Americas." Final question is final impression. Planned and calculated IMHO.