"I think at the beginning Gore was very strong, and it looked like he had a greater ability to lead than Bush. I wish he had kept that throughout the debate. I think Bush got more of a footing as the debate went on." _ Dania Palanker, a student at the Kennedy School of Government in Boston.
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"It comes down to who do you trust more. Gore is too much of a politician. ... He's been a different person in all three debates. This is his best performance, but that's the problem _ it's a performance." _ Mike Winnick, a retired salesman from Long Branch, N.J.
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"Gore looks a little more comfortable in the setting. But Bush is doing better in the setting that I thought." _ John Rogers of Orlando, Fla., who watched in the lobby of the Wyndham Franklin Plaza Hotel in Philadelphia.
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"Gore keeps attacking him. It seems like he is trying to sell too hard. Look at him, he's worried. And he's not as polite as Bush." _ Roger Geck, a semiretired tax preparer, who watched at a bar in Glen Ullin, N.D.
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"I'll give Gore credit for a few facts, but it's been rhetoric. He says, 'I'll promise I can and I will,' and it's the same thing presidents have been saying for years. I can't trust anything they say." _ Brooke Mannell, a receptionist in Portland, Ore.
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