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Kerry wins third debate

Instant polls show Democrat candidate won 52pc votes, Bush 39pc

AFP, Washington
Democrat John Kerry won the third presidential debate yesterday over Republican President George W. Bush, according to instant polls taken by US television networks.
Fifty-two percent of those polled
by CNN said Kerry won the debate in Tempe, Arizona, while 39 percent said Bush won. The poll had a five percentage-point margin of error.
A poll by ABC showed 42 percent saying Kerry won, versus 41 percent who gave the victory to Bush.
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Fourteen percent called it a tie in the poll, which had a 4.5 percentage point margin of error.
In CBS's poll of uncommitted voters, 39 percent said Kerry won, 25 percent Bush and 36 percent called it a tie. The margin of error was seven percentage points.
Not surprisingly, Kerry's team declared their man the victor.
"We're 3-0, its a sweep," Kerry strategist Tad Devine said.
But Bush's team also pressed a victory claim.
"It was a decisive victory for the president on style, substance and humor," said Bush's campaign communications director Nicolle Devenish.
Meanwhile, Democratic challenger John Kerry yesterday plans to start cashing in on what aides claimed as a clear win in his last debate with President George W. Bush, hitting the campaign trail in Las Vegas.
Kerry checked into the gamblers paradise late Wednesday night after making the short hop from Tempe, Arizona, where he slugged it out for 90 minutes with Bush on the economy, healthcare, national security and Iraq.
Bush was also due in the city yesterday, and the rivals are likely to
spend the next two-and-a-half weeks before the November election shadowing one another around 7 to 10 key states still seen as up for grabs.
Kerry was due to give a speech to senior citizens Thursday morning, before leaving the balmy southwest to head north to Iowa, another marginal state analysts believe he must win to claim the White House.
The Massachusetts senator, who roared back into the race with a strong performance in the three faceoffs with Bush, was then due to swap his 757 campaign plane for a bus on Friday and Saturday.
He will chug through up for grabs Wisconsin on Friday and launch a similar tour through Ohio on Saturday.
Face to face Wednesday for the last time before the November 2 election, Bush charged Kerry was weak on terrorism; favored higher taxes and government-run health care; and quipped the senator sat on "the far-left bank" of US politics.
Kerry countered that the president had let Osama bin Laden slip away because of his focus on Iraq; abandoned the US middle class in favor of cutting taxes on the richest Americans; and short-changed efforts to secure US borders.