Quote Originally Posted by dragonrider
There was no chewing up and no pooping. There was no *SNAP* trap. McCain was barely there at all. He seemed a lot more like Matlock than Maverick --- in fact Matlock was probably a bit more "spry" than McCain.

Honestly though, there were no knockouts and no flubs, and really nothing new at all from either of them. If you consider it a tie, then a tie favors the one in the lead: Obama. Most polls actually show more people think Obama "won" the debate, so that doesn't help McCain at all.

I think McCain is doomed.
Truth, this. It wasn't an AMAZING debate, but from I saw there were plenty of traps, it's just that Obama saw them clearly for what they were and neatly sidestepped them. I watched it on CNN, and they are the most balanced of all the networks. The poll they were doing during the debate showed McCain staying relatively stagnant the whole time, while Obama's was almost constantly pretty high up. The polls afterward also showed an improvement in how people view Obama by about 6 percent, I believe, while NOTHING changed for McCain, neither up nor down.