DEBATE: 1st Presidential, Transcript and Poll results

Washington Post - transcript and link to analysis

MSNBC - 268606 responses -- Kerry, 70% - Bush, 30%

CBS - Kerry, 91.52% - Bush, 7.76% - 'draw,' 0.72%

CNN - 131357 votes -- Kerry, 79% - Bush, 18% - 'evenly matched,' 4%

LA Times - Kerry, 86.6% - Bush, 10.0%

SFGate - Kerry, 92% - Bush, 7% - 'Both were excellent' 0% - 'Neither did well' 1%

Star Tribune - Kerry, 70% - Bush, 30%

Please add any linked poll data that you find, as it becomes available.

poll results from south florida, clearly looks like Kerry won this one:

www.local10.com...
In your opinion, who won the debate between President George W. Bush and U.S. Sen. John Kerry?
Choice Votes Percentage of 27111 Votes
President George W. Bush 8365 31%
U.S. Sen. John Kerry 18746 69%

www.nbc6.net...
Choice Votes Percentage of 27531 Votes
President George W. Bush 8454 31%
U.S. Sen. John Kerry 19077 69%

www1.wsvn.com...
Bush
28.8% 597 votes
Kerry
71.2% 1477 votes
Total votes: 2074

www.sun-sentinel.com...
16.4%
President Bush (171 responses)
74.6%
John Kerry (777 responses)
3.0%
I see it as a tie (31 responses)
6.0%
Not sure (63 responses)
1042 total responses

Detroit News
info.detnews.com...

Bush 47.38%
Kerry 50.55%
They were equally impressive 0.52%
Neither was impressive 1.55%

The only thing these polls show is American's, like always, are braindead slaves to the tube, who probably paid no attention to the issues at hand and were concentrating on on the candidates hair, clothing, ect.

As far as I could tell in both debates, no one really won. Bush looked plain stupid and incapable of thinking on his own, without the benevolent guidance of Herr Cheney, and John Kerry looked pretty slick and smooth, like a con man trying to convince me to part with my life savings.

I'll say it again, I am still waiting for the democrats to show me one good reason why they are worth my "wasted" vote.

I for one have not seen any of the debates, as I am a UK citizen, so we generally dont see the debates, unless we tune in to american stations late at night.

What I have heard is that no one is really winning each of the debates taht are being held. If this is true then like Skadi_the_Evil_Elf said, maybe the people who are voting are taken in mearly by the image they protray, and the so called promises they are making opposed to the real issues at hand, and if not so, how they have been before !

Just an outside opinion nothing more