Third of three

The final Bush/Kerry debate was tonight, and it was pretty subdued.

Here's the final tally from Olbermann's blog:

Points Scoring: The Scorer's Table unenthusiastically reports this bout as going to Senator John Kerry by 12 rounds to 4, with 5 rounds even. On individual points, Senator Kerry is awarded a net total of 19 points, and President Bush a net of 2, having undermined his own effort with no less than eight points subtracted, three of them in a disastrous 12th Round in which the President had to be told time was up, answered a question with, in essence, 'all of the above,' and stumbled by inadvertently criticizing himself by claiming the borders of Texas were tighter than they'd been when he was Governor there. He also lost points for having twice invoked the 2000 election, and for once having given back at least a minute of time when the question hadn't really been answered.

The Scorer's Table acknowledges that the chief scorer was in a surly mood because he was kept from Yankee Stadium. New York leads Boston, 3-1, bottom eight, with Boston threatening.

I think Kerry locked up his base, with great answers about Latinos, women, and African-Americans. Plus, Bush lied like a dog when he said he was always concerned about Osama Bin Laden.

He was also smirking like crazy, making an incredibly lame joke about CBS before stopping himself. The moderator may have been the worst ever, tossing up softball questions about religion and not a damn one about stem cells or the environment.

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