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title: 'I Survived'
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date: '2004-10-01T10:47:29-04:00'
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permalink: /i-survived/
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tags:
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- politics
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Did you?
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The entire experience was excruciating. I bit my nails, pulled my hair, screamed at the screen, covered my face with my hands. Afterward, I was drained, but it still took hours to get my blood pressure back down to normal.
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I’m talking, of course, about last night’s debate.
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The Bush campaign has gone into massive spin-mode, as expected, but all immediate indications suggest a massive victory for Kerry. Bush’s squirrellyness was too too evident — the rapid blinking, the increasingly high-pitched strain to his voice — while Kerry seemed to settle in as the debate wore on, becoming calmer and more forceful and more clear with each question.
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As an editorial in the [Boston Globe](http://www.boston.com/news/politics/debates/articles/2004/10/01/a_presidential_kerry?mode=PF) this morning suggests, it’s hard to imagine anyone watching that debate thinking, in the end, that Bush looked more “presidential.”
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But stranger things have been known to happen. And just because I survived last night doesn’t mean I’m going to make it through the rest of the debates, to election day, and through the inevitable lawsuits to follow without having a stroke.
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