Debate Poll... Insider Advantage, Obama 42/McCain 41

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Remember McCain needed a decisive win tonight. He clearly didn't get it.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/17570353/detail.html

[HughMoran]

1. It's all good

Oh, and Obama will learn from tonight and this was the supposedly strong foreign policy debate for McCain.

Good night overall.

[TheDonkey]

2. MSM trying to spin it as a tie. Obama won by a good margin. McTroll came across as

unpresidential.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. That's what my wife & I concluded--Obama won, so the press called it a tie.

[PolNewf]

4. People underestimate the visuals

SurveyUSA has 2 polls out.

In California the poll is a big Obama win. He dominates every poll question.

In Washington it is 40-38 for McCain. McCain has an edge in most of the issue questions. In the "Who looked more presidential?' question Obama had a wide margin.

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6. Look at the cross-tabs in the Washington Poll...

the survey is 53% men and 47% women. That's why McCain was ahead in Washington. If they had corrected the model to a more realistic 52w-48m... Obama would have won.

[BunkerHill24]

5. These numbers are close, but still Obama's advantage

"The survey of 411 registered voters who stated that they were undecided in a nationwide pre-debate survey and who agreed to participate"