Presidental Debate #1 - (dont read if you dont care)

Interesting.

On the Economy - Obama 1 McCain 0

On Foreign Policy - Obama 0 McCain 1

Thoughts ?

Didn't hear enough to comment on content, however it appeared both believed their respective stances which makes a nice change from recent races.

This was supposed to be chance for McCain to pull ahead of Obamas as he's better at soundbites rather than long speeches like Obama

McCain said some really dumb stuff in relation to Foreign policy though. I didn't really think he came out on top there. Maybe even. On the economy McCain just said the same thing over and over again.


Just flicking through CNN etc seeing the commentary. They are all pretty much saying Obama won the debate ...even reporters on Fox news are saying that.

In general it seems Obama nailed it: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/09/why-voters-thought-obama-won.html


And I recommend that site to you all for it's overall tracking on the left. Note how far ahead Obama is in the votes that matter here - electoral college.

Also, for a man who suspended an entire presidential campaign and nearly didn't attend the debate because of the economic crisis, to be completely owned on that topic by his opponent is a terrible look. Proof positive that it was a campaign stunt.

I saw on CNN some Republican spokesperson say McCain was a bit underprepared for the debate because he was devoting time to solving the financial crisis ...then they cut back to the panel of experts that basically said "what a load of crap".

Ha, idiots.
Considering some reports are saying that the bailout was held up by MCCAIN, who was basically political point scoring I'd say they're right...