[ambrose]

So "who won"?

I thought Bush won - but I'm not convinced it will have any effect on the race due to the baseball playoffs.

[Fledermaus]

You assume people still watch baseball.

[Torie]

The effect will be marginal, and the effect will be the chat folks pick up afterwords about the debate. Debates sometimes have more of an impact from the spin then from the debates themselves, up to a point.