Here's the transcript of tonight's debate.

Now, reaction from the blogosphere:

Josh Marshall:

Kerry looked more presidential than the president. I don't know how else to put it. He seemed collected and forceful through the whole thing. The president, meanwhile, seemed excitable, edgy and sometimes ungrounded. Again and again with the banging the table. Perhaps after one question you can get away with a cocky look of sarcastic disbelief after your opponent stops talking. But not every other time.

Another point struck me as similar to the first debate, very similar. Kerry controlled the tempo of the evening. He kept the president on the defensive. He landed his key points about the budget deficit and the president's avoidance of the job issue several times. On health care there was more of a tussle. But I don't think the president framed the evening in the way he and his advisors wanted -- defining Kerry as an out-of-the-mainstream liberal. He did better at that in debate number two than he did tonight.

Oliver Willis:

I give it to Kerry simply because his ideas don't suck, and he can MAKE COMPLETE FRICKIN' SENTENCES and the fact that the president can't talk without making big giant lies...."What have you learned from your wife?" Why is that question in a presidential debate? Not even relevant. And Bush on his wife: she tells me to stand up straight, talk right -- is she his mom?