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Q. Is he suspicious at all that John Kerry’s favorite team won?

SCOTT McCLELLAN: I’m sorry? (Laughter.)

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Q. What’s your comment on the trade deficit?

SCOTT McCLELLAN: Well, what’s your question on the trade deficit?

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Q. So it was a mock debate to the extent that it was — that it was 90 minutes exactly?

DAN BARTLETT: Oh, sure. It might have been just shy, but it was pretty — it was fairly close, but it was definitely time limits and the whole thing. It was very much a rehearsal.

Q. Where was this?

MR. BARTLETT: About 100 feet from here, in a room right off of here. (Laughter.) Sorry.

Q. Why weren’t we invited?

MR. BARTLETT: You were. You didn’t get — Claire, you didn’t give them the invitation? (Laughter.)

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DAN BARTLETT: …On the plane rides yesterday, we had a formal session. We flew in Senator Judd Gregg last night, had a full dress — I say “dress,” but he didn’t wear a suit — rehearsal.

Q. Who won? (Laughter.)

MR. BARTLETT: Both sides represented themselves well. (Laughter.) The President was a clear victor. (Laughter.)

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Q. Can I digress for a second to foreign policy?

DAN BARTLETT: On a day of domestic issues? (Laughter.)

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Q. — stylistically. In other words, he’s not going to try to stop making faces or whatever?

SCOTT McCLELLAN: This is a different format. Well, he spoke to the facial issue just the other day. I think he addressed that matter pretty clearly — (laughter) — when he talked about, with all the shifting positions coming out of Senator Kerry’s mouth, it’s no surprise he would have such an expression. (Laughter.)

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Q. Is it more of a fine-tuning thing, throughout the afternoon, as opposed to a formal kind of walk-through [of the debate site]?

SCOTT McCLELLAN: Oh, you’re talking about a walk –

Q. No –

MR. McCLELLAN: The walk-through he did earlier was just –

Q. I didn’t mean the word “walk-through,” I mean, you know, run-through.

Q. Trot-through. (Laughter.)

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Q. Have you got a travel update for us?

SCOTT McCLELLAN: Yes, but what is it? Monday, October 11th, he’ll make remarks at a Hobbs, New Mexico Rally, then a remarks at a Coors for Senate Luncheon in Denver, Colorado.

Q. Name of the candidate?

MR. McCLELLAN: Coors.

Q. Spell it.

MR. McCLELLAN: You’ve ever heard it, C-o-o-r-s?

Q. Never drunk it. (Laughter.)

MR. McCLELLAN: Okay, that’s on the record. I’m going to go back and check that.

Q. No, I don’t believe you.

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SCOTT McCLELLAN: Hello, weary-eyed gagglers.

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