Thursday, October 14, 2004
Last Presidential Debate
The people who liked Bush or Kerry before today's debate started were a little more convinced that their candidate was the right choice, but I don't think it helped the fence straddlers at all. The race is still a dead heat and the deciding factors may be what P.J. O'Rourke predicted in the most recent issue of the Johns Hopkins alumni magazine: the weather the morning of the election, the mood of the fence straddlers when they wake up, or the price of gas that day; in other words, it is a question of who takes the trouble to go vote on November 2. That's not necessarily a cynical observation--just a perceptive side glance at how very close this race is going to be.
