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Luntz panel on Fox News: very pro Obama
Daily Kos —
The best-testing line? When Obama told McCain three times that he was wrong about Iraq. And Beeton mocks McCain's hilarious new web ad: I read that the McCain folks had released a web ad compiling some of Obama's "John McCain is right" lines from the debate tonight and I was ready to groan and write something like "serves him right" but the ad itself is actually laughably bad. First of all, they could have fit way more examples of Obama praising McCain than they did, but also, if you're going to create an ad that uses Barack Obama's words of agreeing with McCain, the ...
What a night
WTF Is It Now?!? —
I'm trying to put together some kind of consensus on the debate, so this may be a work in progress. Senator Obama did great against the more "experienced debater" McInsane, getting off some good ones -- the 'bomb bomb Iran' thing was a hoot! -- but the old coot was not as strong as I thought he would be. He started off looking tired, later his voice shook, and he came across as a whole to be all sneer, eye twitch, sneer, sneer, smirk. Very rude. ...
9/27 Daily Kos R2K Tracking Poll: Obama 49, McCain 43
Daily Kos —
Today's Daily Kos Research 2000 tracking poll has Obama up over McCain 49-43. All trackers are data from three days prior to posting, with R2K from today (yesterday) and the others from yesterday (day prior). Trackers will not reflect yesterday's strong Obama debate performance until tomorrow. Obama McCain MoE +/- RV/LV Research 2000: 49 (48) 43 (43) 3 LV Diageo/Hotline: 49 (47) 42 (43) 3.2 RV ...
The Morning After
The Mahablog —
So I get up this morning and make the coffee and surf around to get reactions to last night’s debate.
The first reactions from pundits and bloggers last night was that [fill in name of preferred candidate] won on points, but [the other guy] held his own, and neither emerged a clear winner. Dana Milbank and other professional commenters complained that the debate was “tepid” and boring. Politics is just entertainment, after all.
However, there is evidence the television audience saw a different debate. Polls by CBS and CNN say that independents watching the debate came away more impressed by ...
The Fox Focus Group
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
They gave the debate to Obama:
Post-debate wrap-up wrap-up
HorsesAss.Org —
Watching last night’s presidential debate at the jam-packed Montlake Ale House (a horde of DFAer’s pushing us DL regulars into the nooks and crannies), there was little question about who won the contest. Both the boisterous crowd and the CNN dial test audience agreed: it was no ass whooping, but Barack Obama came off as knowledgable, likeable and more in touch with average Americans than the often angry and ornery John McCain. And with this being the debate that focused on McCain’s alleged strong suit, foreign policy, that constitutes a win for Obama.
But afterwards, I stopped off at house filled with angry Irishmen, and the ...
Obama wins the first debate
protein wisdom —
Not according to the pundits but rather to the undecideds . Who, let’s face it, are undecided at this point for a reason : If you want to assess the “winner” of a campaign debate, the only data that matters is the post-debate polling — not the pronouncements of the pundits. It will be some days before we see what effect the McCain-Obama debate at Ole Miss has on the national polls, but in this first 24 hours following the meeting, we already have several data points to consider. All of them bode poorly for McCain. A CBS News/Knowledge Networks poll has Obama winning a plurality of uncommitted viewers. A Frank Luntz focus group of ...
