What You All Think of the Debates?

(this post was written by Kyle on September 29, 2008, and it concerns & & & )

I don’t think Obama hit a home run or anything, but he seemd 90000x more presidential than did McCain.

We were watching it on CNN, and they had a little thing at the bottom of the screen that (at least on West Wing) are called Dial Groups. It’s a real time measure of how Democrats, Republicans, and Independents are reacting to what the candidate is saying.

Whenever McCain was talking, the Republican line was way up in the 80% area, and BOTH the Independents and Dem lines were usually below 50%.

When Obama was talking, ALL THREE were usually somewhere in the 60%-70% range.

So what I took away from that was Obama’s ability to attract more Independents AND more Republicans.

I mean, let’s face it. Hard-core Dems and liberals are gonna vote for Obama. Hard-core Repubs are gonna vote for McCain. It’s the candidate who can snag the most Independents and a steal a few from the other side of the aisle who is going to win.

And according to those Dial Groups, that was hands-down Obama.

Not to mention the fact that McCain simply could not bring himself to make eye-contact with Obama. He wouldn’t even look at him. Not even during the post-debate handshake. I thought that revealed so much about his pettiness and anger.