Today's senior skip day, that Monday after senior prom when traditionally almost all of the seniors at my school don't show up to school. Strangely, I'm finding it more productive than an actual school day.

I missed the debate last night, but from reading some of the news roundups it doesn't sound like it was particularly revelatory. Edwards had a nice showing, apparently, and Clinton continued to undermine her own hollow "bring the troops home" rhetoric with choice quotes like this one:

"I was thoroughly briefed. I knew all the arguments. I knew all of what the Defense Department, the CIA, the State Department were all saying. And I sought dissenting opinions, as well as talking to people in previous administrations and outside experts."

Via My Left Nutmeg, I saw that the Dodd campaign has created this handy little graph showing who talked the most at the debate:



Met00 has been focusing on how much more time Blitzer gave to Obama than to, say, Dodd, which is true - isn't the whole point of a debate supposed to be that it's the one part of the campaign that starts off with a totally level playing field? - but something else struck me when I saw the graph.

Why does Blitzer have the third-highest time spent talking? Again, I didn't see the debate, but it doesn't seem like he'd be able to get that much time out of just moderating and posing questions.