Timber

OK, apparently Bush owned a small part of a timber company that paid him $84 years ago, and Kerry's point was that this would have qualified him as a small business owner. This seemingly had some relevance to the debate, but I was too busy blogging to follow it. Apparently not too many other people (including Bush) understood it either.

Overall, Kerry did better than Bush, but Bush's expectations were so low coming out of the first debate that he probably managed to exceed them.

On the other hand, CNN's unscientific Internet poll is again showing a huge Kerry victory, 79% to 19%, with only 2% calling it even this time.