Tom Brokaw - not funny.

First question and Obama goes off the chart on the CNN "Uncommitted Ohio Voters" graph.

I love that thing. I spend more time watching it than I do the damned debate. LOL

Did McCain just tout Meg Whitman from Ebay for Treasury Secretary? Didn't E-bay just lay off 1,000 workers yesterday?

All economic policy for McCain comes down to earmarks. Yup. Like less than a percent of the federal budget, but that's the cure-all.

All the things he wanted to sacrifice were programs for the poor and middle class!

Even McCain had to laugh when Obama used the "McCain says politicians haven't done anything for the last 30 years. What he doesn't tell you is he's been there for 26 of them!"

That was funny.

"That one"!?!? He pointed to Obama and said, "That one"? Oh hells no...

How rude is that?

How could anyone stand to look at the bitterness known as McCain for four years? Seriously, does McCain do anything but look like he is about to explode?

Setting himself for a big fall by saying "responsibility"....

Does McCain ever sit down? He looks like my pit bull standing there all edgy and ready to attack.

This is his best format?

The angriest member of the Senate is not talking about "tempering decisions" is he?

"Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran."

McCain: "I'm not going to telegraph my punches."

He will, however, announced to the media that he is going to take his already nasty campaign further into the political gutter of slime, smears and outright lies.

What's up with all the bald guys? Is that how you can spot an independent voter?

I wonder how many seconds after the debate ends will it be before McCain releases his next negative attack ad.

What doesn't McCain know? We could create a whole need site to catalog that.

Is that McCain attack ad out yet? The debate's been finished for 5 minutes now.

On CNN both of the Republican talking heads gave the debate to Obama. Bill Bennett and Castellanos both just said Obama won the debate. Amazing.

A moment's silence, please, for the LCR's who are writing on the floor tonight after watching their great homophobic hope fall hard and realising that they sold us all out for nothing....and realising further that Obama is going to raise their taxes...

What really did it for me is when McCain decided to call Obama "that one". He might as well have called Barack boy in front of the world. It was demeaning and an exercise in white privilege.

Obama won it hands down. For those of you who might have seen the documentary film "Senator Obama Goes to Africa," made during his diplomatic visit to Africa a couple of years ago, he was closer to being that Obama last night than at any other time I've seen him on TV during the campaign. He was more Presidential than McCain, as well as warm, down to earth, and connected to people. He stayed more focused on the human issues, and his answers were more detailed and to the point than McCain's.

McCain came across as a snarky old man, and his attacks on Obama did not please the uncommitted voters -- their lines went to "flat line" whenever he did that.

Afterwards I couldn't take any more of the media's micro-analysis. They just chew over and over on the same limited area of subjects, all the while ignoring issues like Palin's religious affiliations.

McCain's campaign will now be even more desperate than before, so we will probably be seeing Palin throw a couple of major stink bombs at Obama in the next few days.

I doubt this debate changed anyone's mind, but i was impressed with how Obama carried himself throughout. This is the point in a campaign when the candidates get tired and frazzled and say and do crazy things, but Obama seems to be in charge of himself and at ease. He inspires confidence.
And Brokaw? A frumpy church-lady.

This was left on another post on accident and should have been left here instead. I've moved it over for the original author.

If you've watched the previous debates, you've noticed the Perception Analyzer at the bottom of the screen. It records the reactions of about 30 "uncommitted" voters - but some say your brain can't devote its full attention to what the debaters are saying and what you're seeing.More..

by proxrte101a

Interesting ... as an aside, how does the "Perception Analyzer" work? Do the uncommitted voters move a little joystick around, like on a Sony PlayStation? Is it kinda like a Ouija board? Do the participants have little tiny infra-red lasers pointed into their eyeballs, measuring the dilation of their pupils (as in Blade Runner)? Do the men have little sensors on their wieners detecting when someone gets a micro-hard-on? Does it involve the Navy surplus anal probes that the SNL prop department dumped onto Ebay a few years ago? Gee ... consider the possibilities! Maybe there should be a TV network with the slogan, "Quit picking your nose, couch potato! Big Brother is watching YOU!"

The debate was a total snoozer. I was making dinner while I was listening. And I almost cut myself a few times because I was nodding off to sleep!