Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Early Returns
"The first time I ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight." - Dick Cheney to John Edwards, VP debate, Cleveland OH, Oct. 5, 2004.
Preliminary figures in the online polls. This is in the order I hit them starting circa 10:15 p.m.CDT through about 11 (curse dialup anyway):
Faux: C-41% E-57%, 39,639 votes
MSNBC: C-30% E-70% 370,100 votes
CNN: C-18% E-78% 137,117 votes
KYW: C-16.09% E-83.91% 2928 votes
LATimes: C- 2.2% E-96.4% 7899 votes
Akron: C-2% E-98% 32529 votes
Newsday: C-3.9% E-96.1% 18136 votes
Houston : C- 9% E-90% (forgot to write down total vote, dammit)
Chronicle
Orlando : C-3/9% E-96.1% 19287 votes
Sun-Sentinel
Sorry about the formatting, Blogger doesn't seem to want to let me arrange these into columns without a lotta html formatting I don't want to bother with this time of night. But them's the figures.
So it's lookin' good so far. You want the truth? I thought Edwards was not at his best, and Cheney was. But the fact is that that's the best Darth Voldemort can manage, to keep repeating the lies faster than Edwards can refute them. You could see the frustration, and it led to all the overlap as the time from one question had to be half-spent on the one before.
Gwen Ifil did better than I expected with the quality of questions, but aside from the "That's all you're gonna get!" to Cheney's one whine that he needed more turd-polishing time, a poor job of overall management.
Oh, and Dick? Even if she'd given you more polishing time, in the end it would still be a turd. Hard to hold that up as an inspiration to the people to give you four additional years to produce more of them.
Preliminary figures in the online polls. This is in the order I hit them starting circa 10:15 p.m.CDT through about 11 (curse dialup anyway):
Faux: C-41% E-57%, 39,639 votes
MSNBC: C-30% E-70% 370,100 votes
CNN: C-18% E-78% 137,117 votes
KYW: C-16.09% E-83.91% 2928 votes
LATimes: C- 2.2% E-96.4% 7899 votes
Akron: C-2% E-98% 32529 votes
Newsday: C-3.9% E-96.1% 18136 votes
Houston : C- 9% E-90% (forgot to write down total vote, dammit)
Chronicle
Orlando : C-3/9% E-96.1% 19287 votes
Sun-Sentinel
Sorry about the formatting, Blogger doesn't seem to want to let me arrange these into columns without a lotta html formatting I don't want to bother with this time of night. But them's the figures.
So it's lookin' good so far. You want the truth? I thought Edwards was not at his best, and Cheney was. But the fact is that that's the best Darth Voldemort can manage, to keep repeating the lies faster than Edwards can refute them. You could see the frustration, and it led to all the overlap as the time from one question had to be half-spent on the one before.
Gwen Ifil did better than I expected with the quality of questions, but aside from the "That's all you're gonna get!" to Cheney's one whine that he needed more turd-polishing time, a poor job of overall management.
Oh, and Dick? Even if she'd given you more polishing time, in the end it would still be a turd. Hard to hold that up as an inspiration to the people to give you four additional years to produce more of them.
