Vox cani

Right, I'm off to bed, cos it's very late thanks to the time difference, and I need some sleep, but seeing as how I'm here, and I watched it....
Bush did very well, he looked silly a bit of the time, but he was way better than in the first one. Kerry though, still looked better, he sounds more grown up, more of a guy to whom people defer. They sound a little repetitive, obviously they would, but they say the same soundbites to make them remembered. What Kerry did very well was in responding to Bush's trump cards and making them look like mere slogans: the flip-flopping response was well worked out, and the global test thing was rebutted nicely. Kerry comes across as not an individualist: for his defence he talks about generals who says he's right, and countries that could help.
Kerry didn't talk in terms of visions of how things would turn out nicely, while Bush repeated his visions of how sorting Iraq makes things dreamy there...
In sunmmary, right now, I say Kerry won, but that Bush could possibly win by not losing by much, which was probably his main requirement tonight.
A few more things: Allan Lichtman turns out to be a good commentator, as well.
Kerry doesn't use the oil price, I wonder if he could... except that the next is domestic policy only.
The presenter was much better this time.
There's a rather interesting conspiracy theory over at salon.com, that Bush looked like he was wearing a wire for the first debate, it's too soon to tell, but there's nice evidence, which could just make this a story.
Night night.