The snap polls of reaction to the debate seem to agree: Barack Obama won again.

Fifty-eight percent of debate watchers said that Obama did the best job in the debate compared to 31 percent for John McCain, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll. The debate caused favorable opinions of Obama to rise slightly from 63 percent at the start to 66 percent, while McCain's slipped 51 percent to 49 percent.

Obama expressed his views more clearly than McCain in the opinion of viewers, who chose Obama by 66 percent to 25 percent. Obama came across as the stronger leader by 23 points and more likable by 48 points.

Americans say 46 percent to 34 percent that Barack Obama was the winner of the first presidential debate in a USA Today/Gallup poll conducted Sept. 27, the day after the debate. Sixty-three percent of those polled said they had watched the debate, 12 percent said they had seen or heard news coverage of it and 25 percent said they had neither seen the debate or news coverage of it. (So, what are we supposed to make of that as far as the poll results?)

A Rasmussen Reports survey conducted Sept. 27 gave Obama a much narrow 36 percent to 33 percent edge with 31 percent undecided. That lead is equal to the 3 point margin of error. Eighty-seven percent of respondents said they watched some, most or all of it.

Asked in the Gallup survey, which candidate offered the best proposals for change to solve the country's problems as evidenced in the debate, Obama bested McCain 52 percent to 35 percent.