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APTN - Washington DC
1. Various of people watching debate in bar
2. Debate on television
3. Women at table
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Pamela Debato, watched the debate:
"I think (Democratic presidential candidate John) Kerry did actually. He looked very confident. He appeared to understand the issues. (US President George W.) Bush I think was just feeding the same line that he's been feeding for the last four years to the American people. Kerry called him on every issue that I think the American people wanted to know about."
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rob McGovern, watched the debate:
"I'm a Kerry supporter and I actually think that Bush won the debate. I think Kerry is behind in the polls and I think he had to really show something tonight and he just he didn't do it. I'm a little disheartened. I think he didn't dispel the fact that he really hasn't taken a solid position on things. I think a lot of people wanted to see him come out and say something really hard, take a risk, maybe upset a few people, and it doesn't seem like he was willing to do that, to make that hard call."
6. Debate on television
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mike Linebaugh, watched the debate:
"Wrong war, wrong time, wrong place. You know, it's not the message to send to the rest of the world. It's certainly not the message to send to our allies, the Iraqi people, and to our troops. And Bush made that, you know, abundantly clear. And I think that's the right message to send, is (that) we've got to stick with the Iraqi people and stay with the troops and support them in anyway we can, and see this thing through."
8. People watching debate at bar
9. Various of Walter Mears, Associated Press reporter, at computer
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Walter Mears, Associated Press political reporter:
"There weren't any knockdowns, there weren't any major breakthroughs, we didn't really hear anything new in those 90 minutes. But that said I think that John Kerry may well have earned himself a second hearing from a lot of people who had heard mostly that, you know, Kerry was a wordy, flip-flopping, evasive, you know, blathering sort of Senate-speak guy. But he wasn't tonight. He was concise, he made his points."

POOL - Coral Gables, Florida
11. Various of Kerry and Bush debating

APTN - Washington DC
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Walter Mears, Associated Press political reporter:
"Kerry probably gains simply because he's elevated now. He's got a platform that he didn't have before. The whole country saw him on an equal footing with the president. I wouldn't be surprised to see him gain a couple or three points in the polls over the next week or so, but I think Bush still has the advantage and he didn't sacrifice a thing in this debate. He never wavered in his insistence that he is right in Iraq, that he was fighting the broader war on terrorism by going into Iraq, and that Kerry's only consistency is his inconsistency."

POOL - Coral Gables, Florida
13. Kerry and Bush debating

STORYLINE:

Americans who gathered at a bar in Washington DC's Georgetown neighbourhood to watch the first debate between US President George W Bush and John Kerry appeared to have mixed feelings about who should be the nation's next president.

While some people said they thought Kerry clearly won Thursday night's debate, others said Bush made the better argument in defending his decision to invade Iraq against Kerry's insistence that Bush is mishandling the war.

A Kerry supporter almost reluctantly said he thought Bush won the debate because Kerry wasn't aggressive enough.



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