skippy the bush kangaroo

Sunday, September 28, 2008

the results are in: obama won the debate

who cares what the pundits say, the real judges have decided -- obama won the first debate handily:

a new usa today/gallup poll shows 46% of people who watched friday night's presidential debate say democrat barack obama did a better job than republican john mccain; 34% said mccain did better.

obama scored even better -- 52%-35% -- when debate-watchers were asked which candidate offered the best proposals for change to solve the country's problems…

the poll suggested the debate was to some extent a wash for mccain: 21% of those who watched say it gave them a more favorable view of him, 21% say less favorable and 56% say it didn't change their opinion much.

three in 10 said their opinion of obama became more favorable after seeing the debate, compared to 14% who said less favorable and 54% who said it didn't make much difference.
sorry, david! too bad, modo! the people that actually vote thought obama wins!

here at skippy international, we are of the opinion that, tho it seemed like a tie (ie, no tko's on either side), the fact that obama looked far more presidential than what people who listened to mcmuffin's "he's not ready" ads had expected, plus the fact that mcmuffin is supposedly the "expert" on foreign policy and should have knocked it out of the park but didn't, gives obama the winning touchdown.

if we may mix sports metaphors.
posted by skippy at 10:24 AM |

3 Comments:

Broder is an addled dinosaur, bought and paid for while pretending to be above partisanship. Come to think of it, that's probably why he likes McCain so much.

And hey, I was using "You can't handle the truth," for Cheney and McCain long before MoDo... but I didn't write so inanely about it. MoDo is just punishing Obama for not giving her enough gossip to write drivel about.
commented by Blogger Batocchio, 3:00 PM PDT  
My thoughts exactly skippy. The fact that there were no gaffes or 'game-changers' from either candidate means a win for Obama.

McCain had home-field advantage, the debate being centered around foreign policy and all, and Obama held his own very nicely.

I would also argue that because McCain had that weird 'I can't look at my opponent' thing going on, that Obama did indeed appear much more presidential.

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commented by Blogger [the Pajama Pundit], 4:12 PM PDT  
Skippy's mixed metaphor was a slam dunk...
commented by Blogger Connecticut Man1, 5:54 PM PDT  

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