huffingtonpost.com - 10/16/2008
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John McCain didn't just fail to get the game-changer he needed -- he was trounced in this third and final debate, if the instant post-debate polling provides any indication.
The results over at CBS show Obama to have scored the biggest victory to date: "Fifty-three percent of the uncommitted ...
time-blog.com - 10/16/2008
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time-blog.com —
From TIME's Amy Sullivan: In politics it is
generally not considered a good sign when voters are...
laughing at you, not with you. And by the end of the third and last presidential debate, the undecided voters who had gathered in Denver for Democratic ...
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Undecideds Laughing At, Not With, McCain
corner.nationalreview.com - 10/16/2008
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corner.nationalreview.com —
John McCain was on tonight-sharp, confident, and powerful.
I think he won this debate, although only on...
points. True, McCain needed something more than a narrow win, but I still think he did himself some good. On the other hand, even when Obama is on ...
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What Joe Doesn't Know
article.nationalreview.com - 10/16/2008
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Early Morning Swim: Obama Gets The 4-0 Sweep Edition
Firedoglake —
Here's a bit of trivia: going to back to '04, the Democratic candidate has beaten the Republican candidate 7 straight times in presidential debates.
That, my friends, is a serious ass-kicking.
Biggest blowout yet: CBS 53-22, CNN 58-31, MediaCurves 60-30, Frank Luntz's focus group.
Denver focus group of undecideds caught laughing at McSame.
But the pundits loved him.
And at The Corner, they're just confused.
HuffPo's got debate highlights.
Sullivan's got ...
Fox Nooze focus group picks Obama
WTF Is It Now?!? —
... Meanwhile, virtually the entire Frank Luntz focus group on Fox News, which was staged tonight in Miami, said that Barack Obama won the debate. Luntz termed it a "clear majority," but not one person raised their hand when asked if they thought McCain won. ...
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As voters have gotten to know Senator Barack Obama, they have warmed up to him, with more than half, 53 percent, now saying they have a favorable impression of him and 33 percent saying they have an unfavorable view. But as ...
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Final Debate, Final Analysis
commentsfromleftfield.com 10/16/2008 — Last night Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama shared a stage for what is most likely the last time during this presidential election season. It was the last best chance for McCain to force a game changer to save his flagging campaign, ...
Obama camp: McCain needs ‘game-changer’ at debate
thehill.com 10/15/2008 — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama s campaign said Wednesday that GOP rival John McCain needs a game-changer at tonight s final debate. In a memo from campaign spokesman Bill Burton, the Obama campaign described the debate -- the last of ...
Reflections on the third Obama-McCain debate
the-reaction.blogspot.com 10/16/2008 — By Michael J.W. Stickings I actually don't have a great deal to add today to what I wrote last night about the debate in my long and occasionally rambling live-blogging post. Obama won. Pretty easily. That's about it. And that's pretty much ...
McCain: Obama 'Probably Ensured' Debate on Ayers
blogs.abcnews.com 10/14/2008 — ABC News' Ron Claiborne, Teddy Davis, and Arnab Datta Report: Speaking to a St. Louis radio station on Tuesday, John McCain said that Barack Obama's recent suggestion that McCain does not have guts to raise the Bill Ayers issue to...
Today's Polls, 10/14
fivethirtyeight.com 10/15/2008 — Perhaps the CBS poll that shows Barack Obama with a 14-point lead among likely voters (12 points when third-party candidates are included) is a modest outlier. But if so, John McCain has more and more outliers that he has to explain away these days. ...
Final debate: game changer?
hotair.com 10/16/2008 — Last evening at the debate party at Trocadero, I heard one comment over and over again after the conclusion of the event: Who was that man on stage with Barack Obama and where has he been the last few weeks? Earlier, I had written that John McCain ...
Stephanopoulos: Is There Anything McCain Can Do?
blogs.abcnews.com 10/15/2008 — ABC News' George Stephanopoulos reports: Going into tonight's third and final presidential debate Barack Obama leads John McCain 53 to 39 percent in support nationally, according to the latest CBS News/New York Times poll. Among independent voters -- ...
Stephanopoulos Goes 4 for 4 in Declaring Democrat the Winner
newsbusters.org 10/16/2008 — Though he decided “this was John McCain's best debate,” Democratic operative-turned ABC News journalist George Stephanopoulos made it a “clean sweep for Barack Obama” as he declared on Nightline after Wednesday's third and final presidential debate: ...
Poll: Debate watchers say Obama wins —
CNN Political Ticker 10/16/2008
Obama won the evening, according to a CNN poll.
HEMPSTEAD, New York (CNN) – A majority of debate watchers think Sen. Barack Obama won the third and final presidential debate, according to a national poll conducted right ...
Obama: McCain 'categorically' proud? —
First Read 10/16/2008
Last night at the debate, McCain said this about some of the recent crowds at McCain-Palin events: “Let me just say categorically I'm proud of the people that come to our rallies. Whenever you get a large rally of 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 people, you're ...
Joe the Plumbers 15 Minutes of Fame —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire 10/16/2008
Laura Meckler reports from Philadelphia on the presidential race.
It was another big day for Joe Wurzelbacher on the presidential campaign trail as he received mostly welcomebut some unwelcome–attention.
Joe Wurzelbacher walks ...
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