Who won the debate?

[Eraserhead]

Thanks to Libya, an Obama landslide.

If the Libya exchange hadn't happened, it would have been a pretty solid Obama win. Not a blowout though.

[Eraserhead]

Obama a narrow victory in all the instant reaction polls.. game changing or not? We'll see I guess.. certainly not the huge victory that Romney had in Debate one.

The beauty of this debate will be in all of clips that are played over and over again. They're pretty much all better for Obama.

[Eraserhead]

SUSA did a debate poll for California:

Obama 56%
Romney 32%

https://twitter.com/SovernNation/status/258409438212415488

Also Nate Silver sites "a Battleground Poll of likely voters in swing states who watched the debate" that shows Obama winning 53-38. I can't find a link though.

Here's Silver's round up of the instant polls:

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/17/instant-reaction-polls-show-narrow-obama-advantage-in-second-debate/

[Eraserhead]

I'm not sure why so many of you thought the debate was boring. George Will called it the best presidential debate he'd ever seen. I'm not sure if I'd go that far but it was definitely one of the better ones.

Which ones did you guys find so much more interesting? Or are you just a bunch of map nerds?

[Eraserhead]

I personally will defer to our resident Libya expert on that particular question. Vosem did, after all, humiliate a (liebiral) school teacher on this very issue.

http://pete.com/view/calm-down-bro

Two things:
a) I'd really appreciate it if someone instructed me how to make images visible instead of posting links, that's getting annoying.
b) Read the post, man...we're discussing voter reactions to the candidate's exchange on Libya, which is a topic rather far removed from the question of whether or not Obama should've intervened in Libya in '11.

a) Get a photobucket.

[Eraserhead]

Gallup says Obama won 51%-38% (for whatever that's worth):

http://www.gallup.com/poll/158237/obama-judged-winner-second-debate.aspx