[Oldhunk]

Perhaps Harris got better as the debate went on. When Russert started hitting her on her support for the fair tax, it was apparent she didn't even take the time to learn exactly how it would work. Her answers were completely lame. That is when I tuned out.

[Deb]

Baloney. The only thing she did wrong was to accept Russert's questions without refuting their premises. Every question he fired at her was loaded and slanted to make her give a quick answer to incredibly complex issues.

His questions to Nelson were variants on: "How do you feel about what the Republicans are doing?"