Who won the debate?

[opebo]

Didn't watch it, but the responses here make it clear enough.  Of course Obama's polling bump if any will be much less than Romney's was as there is a different underlying condition, but a win will probably arrest any further erosion at the present - +2 Obama, winning OH-WS-NV.

[opebo]

It won't stop Obama's slide.  If he had actually outlined policy, I think he would have won.

Didn't the slide already stop?

[opebo]

Yes, I'm relieved, but I'm afraid it's not gonna matter all that much, except that another Romney victory would of course have been bad. This is a 50/50 race now as it has been since the first debate. The damage was done in the first debate. I still can't believe what the hell Obama was doing there.

If the underlined is the case, does that mean you accept the idea that the Big Bump was about something a lot more fundamental than 'debate performance'?  Perhaps race?

[opebo]

But seriously, it was a lousy debate.  A draw, and not in a good way.

Haha, the gratifying sour grapes of the disappointed right-winger.

[opebo]

Seriously, opebo? Do you really think the way this debate was executed "worked"?

Oh I would never watch such a thing.