Heather A. Woodruff '03 was paying close attention to what Al Gore '69 was saying at the second presidential debate Wednesday night.

Suspicious of the vice president's claims after last week's debate, the executive board member of the Harvard Republican club was just a few steps away from a computer connected to MSNBC's online fact checking website.

She turned to the website several times on Wednesday, hoping to catch Gore in another case of "fuzzy math."

"Several times Gore has blatantly lied," she said. "There's no place for accountability for the voter at home."

But at a debate where students from both parties said they were looking for one candidate to take the lead in an otherwise neck-and-neck race, many said no clear victor emerged.

Indeed, in informal viewing parties across campus--including 15 Harvard Republicans in Adams House and 75 Harvard Democrats in Quincy--students said few minds were changed by the debate.

"Both candidates had a positive performance," said Alejandro R. Rodriguez '03, a member of the Harvard Democrats executive board.

Republicans, however, said they were pleasantly surprised with Texas Gov. George W. Bush's performance.