Obama wins the debate
According to the American people, that is.
Yes, while many of the pundits in the mainstream media - and bloggers like me - thought that last night’s presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain would be seen as a tie, it seems that the American public felt differently.
And felt differently in a very, very good way.
The post-debate polls of undecided voters went massively in Obama’s favour. Why, even a focus group of undecideds covered by Fox - Fox! - declared Obama the winner:
Here’s a round-up of the poll figures. As Kos says over on Daily Kos:
“Given the CNN and CBS polling, the public has overwhelmingly crowned Obama the winner of the debate. It seems that Republicans spent so much time trashing Obama’s “lack of experience” and “lack of judgment” on national security, that expectations were ridiculously low, and as a result, people were pleasantly (and happily) surprised.
Kind of imagine Sarah Palin, who we’ve all come to see as a blithering idiot, turning in a performance the caliber of Obama’s tonight - she would all the much stronger for it, no matter if on the merits, she merely equaled Joe Biden. That’s what apparently happened tonight.
And those snap polls are apparently driving much of tonight’s media narrative. That and McCain’s inability to look Obama in the eye.”
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