[Cory]

Originally Posted by Joshua May

The Princeton Review actually rated the candidate's speaking level to a grade school scale, based on their closing arguments. They did this all the way back to Lincoln. (11th grade) Bush's was at a 6th grade level (same as 2000), and Kerry was at a 7th grade level, while Gore in 2000 got an 8th grade rating.

I find that very hard to believe. I don't know many 6th graders that could deliver a speech as well as Kerry, or others could, even in a debate format with nothing prepared beforehand