Who Won The Debate?
I don't get much of a chance to talk with political strangers about the War, the election, the debates, etc. By political strangers I mean people that I may have known for years, and speak to and work with everyday, but politics just doesn't come up in conversation with them. I'm working now with a new group at my job -- all folks I've known and seen and talked with to varying degrees, but wouldn't consider close friends or anything like that. During less than five minutes of down time today we mumbled our way through a conversation on the debates. For those tracking demographics, four of us are men, three of us are married, and I'm pretty much bald athough at least one of the guys will follow in my footsteps. Going in to the conversation I had no idea how any of them thought or felt, and to be fair, that's pretty much still true.
In a nutshell, they thought Kerry sounded better than Bush, except that "He's against the War". It seemed (and again, this is from very brief conversation) that they wanted someone who would fight the War better than Bush has, but were not convinced that Kerry was the guy. I didn't get the impression they were at all satisfied with their choice come November.
Very interesting.