It might have been the last...

but there wasn't much hurrah involved in the New Hampshire debate. In their final appearance before the primary, the candidates didn't make much news or throw many sharp elbows. When they gave in to the impulse to bash, they kept their sights trained on Bush, each trying to 'out Presidential' the others.

Undecided voters may have picked up a new impression or position along the way, but it's hard to imagine that many minds were made up, or any changed, by the candidates.

I thought Kerry hit a couple questions - one on water pollution, another on his post-Vietnam protest activites - out of the park, but, as always, I'm biased. Dean was composed, Lieberman was earnest, Edwards was positive, Clark was officious, Kucinich was liberal and Sharpton was African-American.

But you already knew all of that about all of them, right?