terrye:

I am not sure what the experts meant about catching up to him. Do they mean that people will mull over the result and move to Kerry or that people will change my mind about the who really won?

My own opinion has changed since yesterday. I think Kerry is the big loser. People rated him on style more then content. He looked better. But once you start reading the text Kerry has far more negatives then Bush and few positives. He scored on Bush because in the immortal words of the University of Illinois political scientist Milton Rakove the key to political success was stated by Richard J. Daley, i.e., “don’t make no waves, don’t back no losers.” Presidents must make the decisions while Presidential aspirants make statements. Presidential errors are more serious then candidate errors.

Here’s what you walk away from with Kerry. He feels more threatened by Russian Nukes then Al Qaeda terrorists; he thinks you can sign agreements with NK and Iran; that building a low yield nuclear bunker buster puts a democratic society on the same plane as Kim Jong Il; that he will put the opinions of dictators ahead of the interests of the American people; and finally that he believes that our allies the Poles are beneath contempt. [note: More Polish soldiers died in Normandy then French] There are no Bush negatives of that magnitude in the text.

I have reassessed my pre-game appraisal. I think I nailed it after all.