Do you think the Sunday am talk shows are gonna say Obama won or it was a tie?

[mucifer]

I'm thinking they are gonna say it was a tie to try to keep the election close and their viewership up.

[WA98296]

1. Since they are in the business of ratings, they are going to try for momentum change.

[darius15]

6. Jay-Z: "Men lie, women lie, the numbers don't"

When polls show Obama getting a nice debate bounce, who cares what the talking heads say?

[Andy823]

2. Good question.

MSNBC is saying it was a tie, but CNN is saying the polls show that Obama won! I will be interesting to see who they paint it on Sunday!

[endless october]

3. just my opinion

i think at least one (non-faux) mainstream pundit will call it for McCain just to appear objective.

doesn't matter, though. even if it was a tie, the candidate polling higher wins in that circumstance. and foreign policy is McCain's perceived "strong" area. wait until the next debate.

[Marsala]

4. They'll probably agree that it was a strategic victory for Obama

Even if McCain won (which is doubtful), he didn't win by enough. And a draw plays in Obama's favor. Everyone seems to agree on that.

[ailsagirl]

5. How can they say it was a tie if Obama won more people over to

our side?? (the undecideds)

[grantcart]

7. CNN is calling it a clear Obama win per their polls

[tularetom]

8. What I think is that people care less and less every day

what any of these worthless douchebag pundits think about anything.

Last night after the debate all the MSNBC asswipes were getting moist over McCain's tough guy attitude. Then the poll results started to trickel in. They all jumped backwards through their own assholes tryin to change their stories.

[HughMoran]

9. Surely it'll be called a tie

No biggie - Obama did what he needed to do - and he can step it up if needed in the next 2 as he is a quick study.

[TexasObserver]

10. they will grudgingly acknowledge that McCain needed a win that he did not get

but watch for one poll, that ONE poll that always manages to pop up, which says "McCain won, sure he did, yeah, sure, he did!"

[red storm]

11. Meet the Press should be interesting Sunday

President Bill Clinton is suppose to be on there. I sure hope he falls back into line and stops saying that he respects McCain. He needs to back Obama 100% as all of us REAL Democrats do.

[BlueIdaho]

12. The repubicans are spinning so hard and fast on every media outlet

I wouldn't be surprised if they say McCain won.

We have got to get better at the post game show stuff.

[Captiosus]

13. Does it matter? The point is no one is saying it's a loss

for Obama or a decisive win for McCain.

Even if every media outlet comes out and says it was a tie, the easiest way to spin that is to remark that this debate was dominated by foreign policy, a topic that every media outlet said McCain was going "own". If it's a tie, McCain didn't "own" foreign policy, which means it's a net win for Obama because it proves, beyond any shadow of a doubt - and the scientific polls immediately after the debate backs this up - that Obama is just as strong on foreign policy as McCain.

McCain's "strength" is completely negated even if everyone says it was a tie. It's negated and undermined if they come out and say Obama won. Either way, it's win-win for the Obama campaign.

[AngryOldDem]

14. I think they'll give Obama backhanded praise, and call it a tie.

I can almost hear Brokaw on Meet the Press, and the panel on This Week grudgingly give him his due, while making excuses for McCain. In other words, same old same old.

I just wonder how much attention the debate is going to get given the economy. Frankly, I'd rather hear more discussion on that than the debate.