Comments on: Overnight Election Open Thread http://www.undiplomatic.net/2008/09/26/overnight-election-open-thread/ Bringing foreign policy back, girl. Those other countries don't know how to act. Thu, 17 May 2012 16:42:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: eidos http://www.undiplomatic.net/2008/09/26/overnight-election-open-thread/#comment-2460 eidos Sat, 27 Sep 2008 04:44:39 +0000 http://www.undiplomatic.net/?p=1043#comment-2460 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. 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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