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Obama won
The Moderate Voice — Sullivan points to Silver: TPM has the internals of the CNN poll of debate-watchers, which had Obama winning overall by a margin of 51-38. The poll suggests that Obama is opening up a gap on connectedness, while closing a gap on readiness. Specifically, by a 62-32 margin, voters thought that Obama was “more in touch with the needs and problems of people like you”. This is a gap that has no doubt grown because of the financial crisis of recent days. But it also grew because Obama was actually speaking to middle class ...

Post-Debate Postmortem
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — ... shows roughly the same margin of uncommitted viewers going for Obama over McCain as does the CNN poll, but makes no mention whatsoever of party ID--a flaw in its reporting and possibly its sampling as well. I don't know about you, but I sure am suspicious of this reporting. Naturally, Andrew Sullivan neither understands any of this (math is hard!) nor cares. What he and others are trying to make a big deal about now is the lack of eye contact made by McCain towards Obama during the debate. When you have to focus on such atmospherics in order to claim that your candidate ...

Post-Debate Postmortem
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Naturally, Andrew Sullivan neither understands any of this (math is hard!) nor cares. What he and others are trying to make a big deal about now is the lack of eye contact made by McCain towards Obama during the debate. When you have to focus on such atmospherics in order to claim that your candidate had the better night instead of actually focusing on the substance of the debate (nowadays, the only substantive matters that occupy the attention of Andrew Sullivan revolve around the parentage of Trig Palin--an issue that has become Moby Dick to Sullivan's Ahabesque ...