Poll debate watchers say Obama wins cnn.com
McCain loses the last debate. This was John McCain’s last chance to change the dynamic of the election, to reverse his slide and slow Barack Obama’s momentum. He blew it.The pundits called each of the first two debates a tie, which — given how the polls were shifting — favored Obama. (Surveys later showed voters thought Obama won them both.) This time around, McCain might be glad to settle for a draw. If anything changed tonight, it probably only made things worse for the Republican. We finally found out which John McCain would show up for the debate: an angry, unsettled one who’s obviously frustrated that he’s losing to a man he doesn’t respect much. It’s hard not to think McCain lost ground. Just one example: by the end of the night, McCain may have finally proven his anti-choice bona fides to activists who never trusted him on abortion. But in order to do it, he had to pick a fight over whether abortion laws left too much leeway for exemptions for the health of pregnant women, and he started referring to pro-choice positions as “pro-abortion.” It may not have been the best way to try to close the gender gap.
McCain loses the last debate – War Room – Salon.com
HEMPSTEAD, New York (CNN) — A majority of debate watchers think Sen. Barack Obama won the third and final presidential debate, according to a national poll conducted right afterward.Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain debate face to face Wednesday night.Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain debate face to face Wednesday night.Fifty-eight percent of debate watchers questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll said Democratic candidate Obama did the best job in the debate, with 31 percent saying Republican Sen. John McCain performed best.The poll also suggests that debate watchers’ favorable opinion of Obama rose slightly during the debate, from 63 percent at the start to 66 percent at the end. The poll indicates that McCain’s favorables dropped slightly, from 51 percent to 49 percent.The economy was the dominant issue of the debate, and 59 percent of debate watchers polled said Obama would do a better job handling the economy, 24 points ahead of McCain.
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UPDATED WITH FINAL RESULTS As in the previous debates, CBS News and Knowledge Networks have conducted a nationally representative poll of uncommitted voters to get their immediate reaction to tonight’s presidential debate.In the first presidential debate, second presidential debate and vice presidential debate, more uncommitted voters said the Democratic candidate was the victor.And tonight’s results have, by a wide margin, made it a clean sweep. Here are the final results of the survey of 638 uncommitted voters:Fifty-three percent of the uncommitted voters surveyed identified Democratic nominee Barack Obama as the winner of tonight’s debate. Twenty-two percent said Republican rival John McCain won. Twenty-five percent saw the debate as a draw.More uncommitted voters trusted Obama than McCain to make the right decisions about health care. Before the debate, sixty-one percent of uncommitted voters said that they trust Obama on the issue; after, sixty-eight percent said so. Twenty-seven percent trusted McCain to manage health care before the debate; thirty percent said so afterwards.
CBS Poll: Uncommitted Voters Say Obama Won Final Debate – Horserace
McCain loses againJohn McCain promised to kick Barack Obama’s “you know what” on Wednesday night. He hinted that he’d bring up former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers and worse. Instead McCain bludgeoned Obama with Joe the Plumber, and the effect was more farce than fierce.McCain mentioned the now-famous plumber, Joe Wurzelbacher, an apparently wealthy Toledo businessman who complained he’d pay more taxes under Obama’s plan, more than he talked about Sarah Palin or Osama bin Laden, by far. Midway through the 90-minute conversation, Obama was addressing Joe the Plumber, too. And it was clear by then that McCain had lost three straight debates.
