What did they say to each other?
Bush: You are a cheese-eating surrender monkey, Johnny.
Kerry: I'm richer than you, cornpone.
Bill Crystal: Bush slaughtered Kerry. He has BUsh winning outright on the majority of questions.
Jay Severin: John Kerry murdered Bush tonight.
His analysis is that these debates are like the Reagan election where Reagan became well known to the electorate and had escaped the opinions of others, and the public came to like Reagan.
This election is probably over.
Bush had a 10 point lead two weeks ago and all the momentum is now going to Kerry. That is a political fact.
Never mind how you want this to turn out. Be objective about how it is going to turn out.
I am solidly a Bush guy who has sent hundreds of dollars to the Bush campaign this year. Including $100 dollars today.
It's over. Face it. The polls are moving toward Kerry and apparently the undecideds are going with Kerry.
Seriously, Bush mentioned something about "fighting back," but that's all I could get from the exchange.