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I think the "winner" of Presidential debates depends more on style over substance. Gore was right on in most of the debate points, but came over as a stiff arrogant intellectual.
Poor Bush stumbled around, yet had that "folksy" charm that many Americans identified with (think about it, if any regular American was going to debate, do you think they would be as knowledgable as Gore was? no..that's why so many liked Bush from the debates). In other words, it's more important in how you say something as opposed to what you actually said.
But that was 4 years ago..before 9/11, before the economic collapse, before the great outsourcing and our isolation from the world because of Bush's "agenda" to go it alone and do what he damn well pleased. This time around, people are going to listen much more carefully to what IS said this time.
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