Within the first 5 minutes of the first presidential debate, I declared Kerry the winner, and “not just in the high-school debate-coach sense of the word.”
And now, within the first 5 minutes of the second presidential debate, I’m saying Bush is cleaning Kerry’s clock.
Bush has the easier task. If he just showed up and didn’t scowl a lot, he’d beat expectations.
But the rout goes well beyond that. Kerry is rattling off numbers and sounding negative, not connecting with his questioner. Bush, on the other hand, is sure, at ease, and scoring hits on Kerry.
There’s more.