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Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2004 11:08 p.m. EDT
Fox Panel: Debate a 'Knockout' for Bush
Fox News Channel's debate panel ruled the last of three face-offs between John Kerry and President Bush a clear win for the president, with panelist Bill Kristol saying Kerry had been "knocked out.""I think Bush knocked Kerry out tonight," he told Fox debate anchor Brit Hume. "He just slaughtered him." "I was keeping track of the twenty questions," Kristol said. "I don't have Kerry winning any question outright. I think maybe six or seven were tied. And I have Bush winning outright a majority of the questions."
Panelist Fred Barnes concurred.
"It was clearly President Bush's best debate. He seemed to marshal all the arguments that he wanted on all these domestic issues - many of which are traditional Democratic issues, including health care."
Barnes said this was the first debate where Bush seemed "animated and strong" on the early questions. "In the others it's taken him sort of a half-hour to get rolling."
"If he had done as well in the first debate as he did tonight, he'd have a much bigger lead in this race," he added.
Panelist Morton Kondracke agreed, saying, "I think Kerry was on the defensive a lot of the time, so I think it was a much better performance by Bush."
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