Bush Did Well

For this debate, I was actually pleased by Bush's performance. I'm still voting for Peroutka, though.
Although Bush dodged a few questions (e.g. Roe v. Wade) or used dubious statistics in some places (e.g. Pell Grants) (by dubious I mean that we didn't have enough context to interpret the significance of the statement), he did sound like he was thinking, at least. The big score for Bush was when he brought up Kerry's vote against the First Gulf War, because this implied that Kerry's suggestion that he would support the war if we had a bigger coalition is false.
On immigration, Kerry seemed somewhat to the right of Bush in calling for more stringent enforcement, however, Kerry didn't cite some facts that he could have used to devastate Bush, e.g. the fact that a lot of our security procedures are streamlined for Mexicans and Canadians, so that an Arab claiming to be, e.g., Mexican could easily get into the US with little or no identification.
Bush wimped out onthe assault weapons ban, I'm afraid, and Constituionally, he's not a very good president. But the question for the debate from my perspective is how well he made his case, not whether or not I agree with his positions.
I think Bush's biggest strength on domestic policy is that his arguments do NOT revolve around telling Kerry that he is "sending mixed messages" and "discouraging our troops and allies" every time Kerry points out an unpleasant truth.