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[bryant]

On CNN, they're citing unnamed conservative blogs as feeling Bush had a mixed performance. It's amusing to watch blogs get co-opted into the spin. General feeling of positive for Kerry from the CNN talking heads. Maybe the Corner; they're pretty dubious about how Bush did. CNN thinks Bush looks annoyed. Fox is not calling either man the winner. Fox picked up on how tired Bush looked and how much he sighed. Not to mention annoyed. They don't know if it was effective or not, but Ceci Connelly is calling the expression sour. They're admitting that Bush looked shorter due to the framing. Spin is fun.

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[head58.livejournal.com]

I listened to WBZ's call in show on my drive from Revere to Hopkinton last night (about 11-midnight). I think I heard 2 callers who thought Bush won, or who were convinced he had done well. At one point the host was berating a caller who said Bush was slumped over the podium and that was "insulting to the American people" as spouting pure idiotic nonsense. Half an hour later, the host was saying the same thing.

I wonder if the parties organize "ringers" to call into these late night talk shows and spout how they were undecided but "Candidate X really slam-dunked it for me tonight." It's certainly what I would do to spin the post-debate reaction. But if so, Bush's crew was having a hard time getting through.

[bryant]

You betcha. Kerry: http://www.johnkerry.com/signup/mediacorps.php
and Bush had a seriously organized rapid response effort.

Which did not help when he sat there for ten seconds without speaking.

Heh.

[multiplexer.livejournal.com]

"Vapor Lock."

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Ten seconds without speaking, when he had asked for the time. It's not even like he was floored by Lehrer's question, or by Kerry's answer to Lehrer's question: he had just listened to Kerry talk, he asked for a thirty-second response, and then he stared at the camera like a deer in headlights. Astonishing.