Round two of the Bush-Kerry, three-round debate occurs tonight in St. Louis. The event features a town-hall style format with questions coming, supposedly, from "swing" voters. Judge for yourself if any hardcore partisans make it through the screening process. Whereas the Miami debate focused on foreign policy, Friday night's affair will cover a broader range of topics. While no candidate delivered a knock-out punch in round one, most judges seemed to have scored it for Kerry. What happens if Kerry again outperforms Bush? With poll numbers so close, could these debates be the deciding factor on November 2?

Are they going to be sitting in those high-legged chairs that look like bar stools? And then stand up and start walking around on the stage in front of the audience as they make their points?

Do town hall style debates make anyone else sick to their stomachs?

The two PBS moderators (is it a conflict of interest to have state-paid journalists moderating?) kept asking obviously left-biased questions of Bush and Cheney while asking the democratic candidates really gay softball ones such as "Sen. Edwards . . . Do you feel personally attacked when Vice President Cheney talks about liability reform and tort reform and the president talks about having a trial lawyer on the ticket?" So I doubt the town-hall format can give any more advantage in questioning to the libs than they already had.

Michelle Malkin has to be one of the best thinkers/writers on the planet.

In a recent offering, she hits the nail right on the head with regards to the two Bozos running for the Presidency. Specifically, their alleged plans for National Security without giving one ounce of thought to our wide open borders and the problems that brings.

Check it out:

www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/mm20041006.shtml

Worth the trip.

Brian, I hate town hall meetings, too. Too Hollywood...

ahahahahah. Michellle Malkin is only famous because she an Asian-American who's for internment camps. She's just like those slaves that rich southerners used to tote around who claimed that they loved thier servitude.
To see her as a legitimate political commentator is to admit to serious cognitive difficulties.

She's Phillipino you moron.

For a numbnuts who's always crying "racisism" (DB spelling), you don't know much about races.

Whatever the case, she's brilliant.