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With one month to go to the election, the polls continued to show Bush a step ahead in the race for the White House. Democrats were hoping that other polls rating Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen (D-Tex.) as the winner of the vice presidential debate would serve as prelude to a shift in the presidential race itself...
...Bentsen chipped in on the Democratic anti-Quayle barrage, saying it was an "incredible misfit" for his vice presidential rival to compare his own experience in Congress with John F. Kennedy's before the 1960 election. Quayle's self-comparison produced the most riveting moment of the debate, when Bentsen turned to him and said, "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy...
Campaigning in Texas, Bentsen said, "I was reading the paper this morning where George Bush said he thought Dan Quayle had won that [debate] and they...I'm very sorry," he said as his own laughter interrupted his sentence. "And yet every poll showed we won, and I'd say 'George, as President Reagan would say, facts are very troubling things...
However, the two media and debate experts disagreed on which candidate would register the debate's best performance. Kalb favors Bentsen, who he says is a "careful, measured and intelligent speaker...
...Bentsen, on the other hand, "will look like an old boy," said Marius...