Another set of reactions to the debate were donations on fred08.com. Fred has had the "Red Truck" up on the web site for measuring donations as he has tried to fund the SC media push. He had been bringing in a little less than $100k per day and going into the debate, he was at about $520,000 ($20,000 short of his goal). Now, less than 12 hours later, we are at $590,500--almost as much is 12 hours as he has been pulling in 24 hours. Not only that, but the number of new Friends has grown quite a bit.
Fred08 has collected various blogger reactions which really show the overall reaction.
# Jim Geraghty:
Winner: Thompson. This performance was so commanding, I wanted his last answer to echo back to the lights in the back of the auditorium, blow out all the lamps and spotlights, for the theme to “the Natural” to play, and for him to trot around the stage in slow motion while sparks showered down in the background.
# Jonathan Martin:
Fred drops a daisy cutter on Huck.
Truth told, he unleashed so much oppo that I didn’t have a chance to catch it all.
But he did say Huck’s comments on the Bush administration’s “arrogant bunker mentality” were reminiscent of the “Blame America first crowd” before ticking off hits on taxes, Guantanamo, Huck’s support from the NEA and his support for a national smoking ban. There were others, too, but Fred was on a roll.
“That’s not the model of the Reagan coalition; that’s the model of the Democratic Party,” Thompson concluded, winning lusty applause and “Oohs” from the studio audience.
# Marc Ambinder:
This was Fred Thompson’s second strong debate in a row; it’s as if he realized there was a real campaign and that he had real talent to bring to bear in a way that makes him look good and his opponents look silly.
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