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Monday, October 11, 2010

postheadericon The âMeet the Pressâ Senate debate â advantage Kirk; hereâs why

On Sunday, “Meet the Press” moderator David Gregory staged the first of the one-on-one weekly debates between Senate candidates in the lead-up to the Nov. 2 elections.

In this week’s match-up â€" for Barack Obama’s Senate seat in Illionis â€" between Republican Congressman Mark Kirk and Democratic Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, neither man came away looking like a hero. In the setup piece, the Chicago Sun-Times’s Lynn Sweet characterized the race this way: “If all you're looking at is the negative side, you have a choice between a serial embellisher [Kirk] and a mob banker [Giannoulias].”

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