I have been reading the thread with interest and lucky for me that I was since on Saturday I was called by the CNN/USA Today Gallup Poll and spent a half hour answering all the questions offered by the interviewer. Since the conservatives on the thread have had the more compelling arguments I gave all conservative responses. Today's release shows the race deadlocked at 49/49, I am sure Kerry would be leading if it wasn't for my answers.
One open item here is the bi-lateral vs: multi-lateral issue in the debate. Kerry was definitively precise in calling for a "global" solution and multi-lateral cooperation on Iraq but when Bush answered a question on North Korea responding that there was a multi-lateral strategy with China, Russia, Japan and South Korea Kerry rebutted with his solution of bi-lateral discussions between the U.S. and North Korea, a strategy that Clinton employed which allowed the North Koreans to walk out on the process and disregard their commitments. I was very surprised by Kerry's position but even more surprised that Bush didn't jump right on this but he was having a bad night. Also, no politcal analyst/pundit on the post debate shows caught this contradiction either. It didn't get discussed for a couple of days.