I had the pleasure of sitting down to watch the town hall debate with my sister on Tuesday. We both found ourselves talking back to the tv at various points. Here are a collection of our thoughts:
-McCain needed to really hit a homerun with this debate. With the poll numbers dropping and the electoral map taking a hard left, he needed drama, attention and oomph tonight. Neither of us saw that. Frankly, we found the entire debate rather uneventful.
-Obama looked considerably more relaxed than McCain. Sadly, McCain often appears tense because of the limited body movements he can do as a result of his time as a POW.
-Neither of us cared for the format. Lets go back to old school Lincoln - Douglas!
-Both candidates had fairly poor answers on the economic crisis. Neither of them gave meaningful ideas on how to address this. It seems as if Washington is doing one collective shrug of the shoulders.
-McCain's attempts at jokes were just not effective. Why try a joke when the audience has been told they cannot respond? And why was he meandering around the stage when Obama was speaking?
Overall, I'd give this one to Obama, simply because McCain failed to change the game.
More bad news for McCain. RCP is now projecting Virginia as leaning left, and West Virginia is now a toss up. According to their map, Obama wins.
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