Setting up for a Fall

Seems like the Dems are already playing down the Pres debates!!! Josh Marshall is quoting the shrill Krugman on how the 90 min debate will not be the true measure of opionion but the post-debate debate!!

If 2000 was any indication -- and there's every reason to think it is -- the winner of the debate won't be determined during the 90 minute encounter itself but during the spin war that will follow it. And with the advantage the Republicans have on the cable nets, talk radio and chat TV shows, the odds are stacked in their favor.
(As Krugman alludes to, the initial public reactions to the first Bush/Gore debate had the then-veep coming out on top, if narrowly. It was only after several days of pundit churn that Bush became the winner. The Bush team won the post-debate debate.)

Nothing like lowering the expectations, eh? I thought the Rad Dems thought Bush was an idiot! It'll be tough to explain how their candiate got beat . . .