The Sunday night Election Debate

Well I watched the so-called "Great Debate" last evening and certainly it
was different to past elections. I did switch between 7 and 9 to watch the worm's reaction but the ABC and Sky did not use it. Julia Gillard certainly did impress but Tony Abbott wasn't as bad as pundits were predicting.

It is interesting that the worms gave it to Gillard while experts said that Abbott won. Some tweeted to say it was nothing more than a glorified press conference instead of a proper debate.In my opinion Gillard came across much more sympathetically than Abbott and that is probably why she scored higher with females. Good on David Speers for trying to get both to answer the questions instead of waffling on.

Robin L. Harwood 0448 UTC July 26th 2010