Straight Down the Middle

The Agonist sees it more or less like I do:

Update: Ok, here is my take. Tie. Straight down the middle. Cheney came across as reasonable, perhaps a bit genial, and avuncular. Yeah, we know he lied a lot. That's a given. But his delivery was solid. He had lots of specifics where Edwards was more general.

Now, Edwards seemed tentative--until he got to the domestic issues. I expected more from him. He clearly did a lot better on the domestic stuff than on foreign policy. If you take everything but one question, I think the debate would have been a slight tie. But, when Edwards started talking about Cheney's gay daughter the knife went in. Think about it for a second. (How much of Bush/Cheney's base know Cheney has a gay daughter?) It was real clear Cheney didn't want to talk about this. And it was very clear he was not happy about it being brought up. It actually did frustrate him for the next two or three questions.

The Agonist