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1. 1 On September 26th, 2008, Ross said:

   have to largely agree Charlie…
   two guys locked in their own framing of the issues; McCain never seemed to break free of his to truly “engage” with Obama though… came across as condescending, as you mention, and his consistent use of “naive and dangerous” seemed to me indicative of a planned attack rather than an effective parry to a specific point Obama would make.
   like many, my sense was that McCain needed Obama to appear unqualified, and McCain was not successful in that vein (despite all the “naive and dangerous” and “Senator Obama doesn’t understand”s).
   ultimately, to the folks over in macomb county, or down in ohio, i think you saw two presidential candidates up there, and if Sen. Obama held his own (and I’d say, articulated a future-oriented vision much better than McCain) on McCain’s best turf, I have to say advantage obama, in a close debate… not on points, but overall

2. 2 On September 27th, 2008, eidos said:

   This is McCain’s strong area and he did well. Considering how erratic his campaign was the last couple of weeks I was surprised to see him do so well. On the other hand McCain is starting to slip in the polls and he needed a strong knockout to revers that, which he didn’t get. So Obama won in a sense just by not losing badly. All he really had to do was come across credibly as a commander in chief, which he did.

   Because of the financial crisis there was big chunk of time spent on the economy that would not normally have been a part of this debate. Obama clearly did better there and that helped neutralize McCain’s foreign affairs advantage.

   It was a pretty dry, serious debate. We’ll have to wait for the VP debate for comic relief.

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