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“Kerry’s conduct in this debate adds to the impression that he would make a competent President and able commander in Chief. Kerry’s task is no longer to convince people that Bush is a poor President, despite his supposed charm and whatever sentimental memory of his strength from the fall of 2001. People are seeing all of Bush’s shortcomings. Kerry needs to “close the sale”, and his debate performance tonight helps. People are still accumulating their impression of the man — he seems steady, smart, less political and more substantive, less doctrinaire than they have been led to believe. For many people, this is the fourth hour that they have spent with him, and I think that he is wearing well.
It doesn’t help that Bush’s credibility is now invested in Kerry as being an awful liberal and flip-flopper. I suspect many people are saying that Kerry doesn’t seem to be who Bush says he is, and what does that say about Bush?”