… John Edwards, according to a Daily Kos insta-poll taken after the debate [1]:
Daily Kos Readers Declared Edwards The Winner. According to the Daily Kos poll, “Who won the debate,” as of 10:30 pm after the debate John Edwards led the pack with 20% of the vote (1034), leading Obama at 17% (881), followed Clinton at 10% (530). The answer “More than one of the above” received 12% of the vote (600) and “None of the above” had 11% of the vote (584).
Edwards, BTW, was one of the four candidates [2] who did not raise his hand in the affirmative when Brian Williams asked the candidates if they thought we were in a global war on terror. I’m sure that helped him win over the Nutroots contingent [3] at Kos.
BTW, last night in my liveblogging [4] on the debate, I talked about how I couldn’t get over how long it took for John Edwards to answer Williams’ question: “Who do you consider to be your moral leader?” For those of you who couldn’t bear to sit through the debate in its entirety, here’s a clip of that particular question and Edwards’ contemplating of a response. It’s just slightly over a minute, and worth watching, I think, just so you can get a feel for just how bizarre it was that it took him so long to answer it:
It took him ten seconds before he opened his mouth to answer the question. C’mon, is it really that hard to come up with someone who is your ‘moral leader’? I guess it is, if you believe you’re better than everyone else but don’t want to come right out and say so.
Update: ST reader CZ has the line of the night [5]:
He really wanted to say his moral leader has been his hair stylist. But that would have raised questions that are even more difficult to answer.
Heh.