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I "accidentally" read this Free Republic post and its attendant comments, following a link from Daily Kos. It's... blog-bizarro world, really. Almost all of the comments seem just as dumb as the dumbest 50% of the dKos comments, while expressing the exact opposite viewpoint (in both cases, usually something to do with considering the opposite party to be akin to an organized crime syndicate), except with far more freeform grammar, spelling and punctuation. (Normally something I don't stoop to observe, but the difference is appreciable.) (And the relatively ugly page styling doesn't help much, either.)

And this is saying nothing about the article itself, which is about how the wicked and cowardly Democrats hope to steal the election through massive voter-registration efforts. Um... whuh... huh?

It really is an entirely different world, over there 'mongst the Reds.

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I am nervous about the debates. I posted this confident ruh-ruh thing last week, but have since learned that the conventional wisdom stacks things mightily in Bush's favor; he has, they say, won every debate he's participated in. Kerry himself has said this.

GWB oozes with camera-friendly charisma, and will have a lot of soothing words for Themerican People, and a lot of winking smirks for his opponent, who I understood was almost late for the debate because he kept having to return to his office to put on a different color tie, wink, smirk, say no more.

A big difference between this and his previous debates, though, is that forty-five percent of his audience is guaranteed to meet his mugging with vein-popping rage. I don't know how or if this will affect that precious middle ten percent, them who's in the purple states. I pray that they can see though the smirking. I can't say. Very nervous.

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Yes, I should be in bed now. Good night.

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[wrog]

Check out yesterday's DailyHowler.

Gore utterly wiped the floor with Bush in that first debate, at least by any actual debating standard. I listened to a good part of it on the radio and remember thinking so at the time.
What I didn't know at the time was that the immediate audience polls agreed as well.

Our reception cut out about 2/3 of the way through (we were travelling on the far side of the Cascades at the time), so I missed the end and the initial punditry (which apparently was also pronouncing Gore the winner).

But by the time we got back the next morning, the media had gotten their act together and settled on the narrative about how Bush did "surprisingly well" and how Gore's sighing outraged people.