In an almost-instant poll following the first presidential debate, Barack Obama emerged ahead of John McCain.
A CBS News/Knowledge Network poll of 500 uncommitted voters found that 40 percent thought Obama was the winner, 22 percent though McCain won and 38 percent called it a draw.
Forty-six percent of uncommitted voters said their opinion of Obama improved as a result of the debate.
A CNN/Opinion Research poll of people who had watched the debates said 51 percent thought Obama did the better job in Friday night's debate, while 38 percent said McCain did better.
Sixty percent of viewers said they thought McCain did better than they expected while 57 percent said the same of Obama. More than two-thirs said they believed either man was capable of handling the job of President.
Debate watchers gave Obama a 58 percent to 37 percent edge on which candidate would do a better job handling the economy and Obama bested McCain by a similar margin about who would better handle, in specific, the current financial crisis.
On McCain's forte (at least in most polls), national security, he led Obama only by 49 percent to 45 percent, which was with the poll's 4.5 point margin of error.
CNN polling director Keating Holland said, "The real test will come in a few days when we see whether support for Obama or McCain changes in polls involving all voters, not just debate watchers...(John) Kerry also won the third debate in 2004 with the same numbers that Obama got in tonight's poll, but his support dropped five points after that event."
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Obama is clearly the better debater this round mccain own body language towards obama. Is abhorrant and surreal. He appears to be having a serious problem just being in same room.Refusing to even look at Obama it appeared he was talking to the air or the podium. To top it all off, he came off as disgruntled , dim witted ,lethargic disoriented,are a few thoughts that came across, my mind while i was watching them.At the beginning the frist 40 minutes or so he look well rested, then his behavior changed and was in control of him his neck and shoulders kept moving in an awkward position to avoid looking at or acknowledging his opponent in any way. he put himself in a box of his own making distracting the viewer from what he had to say more importantly, he made Obama look better and more Presidential than himself.In other words he threw the baby out with the bath water.
Posted by: evelynhale
| October 1, 2008 6:06 AM
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