Who wants to bet the media gives this to Bush?

[devilgrrl]

Seriously, they'll either spin this as a draw or for Bush outright - it wouldn't surprise me.

[Killarney]

1. they can't. it would be too obvious. this is a smackdown.

[PoliticalJihad]

2. Sad, but true.

Talking heads will spin, spin, spin...

[booksenkatz]

3. You may be right, but if they do

lightning will strike every one of them DEAD. This Bush is even worse than the last Bush, much harder to spin it this time than it was last time!

[kerryin2004]

4. There is no way..

That meltdown against Charlie Gibson!

[JFW]

5. Wouldn't surprise me...

it's in their best interest to keep things close so they can keep blabbering about it.

[Cha]

6. Why? What have they got? n/t

[dogman]

7. The fact checkers will be busy.

Cheney looked better until the facts came out.

[rocktivity]

8. "If Bush doesn't fall down, it's a tie.

"If he gets the best of Kerry only once, it's a landslide victory--and the media will have all weekend to says so."

That's what I posted a couple of hours ago. I didn't lack faith in Kerry's performance, just in the way the mainstream media would spin Bush's. There's no way they spin this into a landslide or even a tie, espeically if we click on that yellow bar on top of the page and hit the polls!