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I guarantee you that most people who watched it like
him more now than before. He came across as a
thoroughly good man. He was more articulate than he
was in 2000, the last time that the vast majority of
people watching him will have heard him speak
off-the-cuff.
This is like the debates with Al Gore that he won: the
pundits all thought that he’d lost; the focus groups
thought otherwise.
This appearance was good. Period.