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September 26, 2008 11:02 PM

Poll Results Suggest More Uncommitted Voters Saw Obama As Debate Winner

UPDATED WITH FINAL NUMBERS CBS News and Knowledge Networks conducted a nationally representative poll of approximately 500 uncommitted voters reacting to the debate in the minutes after it happened.

Thirty-nine percent of uncommitted voters who watched the debate tonight thought Barack Obama was the winner. Twenty-four percent thought John McCain won. Thirty-seven percent saw it as a draw.

Forty-six percent of uncommitted voters said their opinion of Obama got better tonight. Thirty-two percent said their opinion of McCain got better.

Sixty-six percent of uncommitted voters think Obama would make the right decisions about the economy. Forty-two percent think McCain would.

Forty-eight percent of these voters think Obama would make the right decisions about Iraq. Fifty-six percent think McCain would.

We will have a full report on the poll later on. Uncommitted voters are those who don't yet know who they will vote for, or who have chosen a candidate but may still change their minds.

The margin of sampling error could be plus or minus 4 percentage points for results based on the entire sample.

Click here to read more from the poll.
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by hooshar September 29, 2008 5:07 PM EDT
basichm - you should do more research - your points are show your ignorance about who barack is. Perhaps stop reading bias foxnews type of information and get more info then post something of value. Ignorance is not bliss.
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by rinnie5 September 29, 2008 1:59 PM EDT
Obama plays to the uncommitted masses because of his flash in the pan style, his swagger and braggadocio style, his wardrobing and makeup, and his phony superficial demeanor and rhetoric. It''''s easy to charm the pants off of those not lacking in the northern parts of the anatomy. Obama was obnoxious and rude in the way he kept calling McCain by his first name; it showed his lack of respect and upbringing. At least McCain was decent enough by correctly referring to Obama as Senator. Obama''''s smirking facial expressions also are a trademark of his inexperience and arrogance. His demeanor was inexcusable and offensive. Sad that so many identify with this type of juvenile behavior.


Swagger?? lol Didn''t you vote for Bush? Lets talk swagger....etc.
McCains demeanor? Oh good grief....he flicked his eyebrows enough to make me believe he had gnats swarming around them...rather chimp like......lol
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by rinnie5 September 29, 2008 1:55 PM EDT
Funniest Video of Obama Teleprompter going out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o


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Or go to Youtbe.com and type in search "Obama Teleprompter goes out"


At least he didn''t "lie" about it being broke..........as did "failin palin"!!! lol
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by rinnie5 September 29, 2008 1:53 PM EDT
We need change in the White House. However, we also need to do our due diligence. Devastating allegations are being weighed in a Philadelphia courthouse re: Obama''''s citizenship. Why won''''t Obama simply provide the court a certified vault copy of his birth certificate? Is Obama even eligible to be President? If the allegations are true, it will destroy our Democratic Party.

www.obamacrimes.com or GOOGLE: obama lawsuit

That''''s why McCain was so smug during the debate. But do the same for McCain. www.mccaincrimes.com and GOOGLE: MCCAIN LAWSUIT.

We need Senator Obama to vanquish these allegations by providing the American public proof that he is not part of an elaborate scam.

Show us a certified vault copy of your birth certificate, so that we may vote you into office without reservation.

--concerned democrat

Go to factcheck.org and see the original birth certificate for your self. Read the article. Hope this clears all this bs up. I also believe the McCain campaign would have used this issue against Obama if it were in fact true that Obama wasn''t born a USA citizen.
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by mattcat25 September 29, 2008 12:51 PM EDT
Enlightof all the horrendous results of the Conservative Agenda, if John McCain were to win this debate, or any debate on the better interests of the average American Working Class we all lose.
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by seah5 September 29, 2008 6:41 AM EDT
I found Obama to have came in last in the debate. With all his stutters and stammers.

How many times did he say McCain was right?

Mr Obama had a hard time getting himself and what he wanted to express across.

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by zekeblatz September 29, 2008 5:00 AM EDT
I am personally conservative. I am ashamed of the Republican party''s evolution into something other than conservative and veering away from showing even a modicum of honesty and integrity.
John McCain is a disgrace to the party (as are those in the current administration.) His campaign ads are full of outright lies and his dramatic theatrics are underhanded and insulting.
I have nothing against Sarah Palin but to put her on the ticket was a devious and well thought out marketing stunt. I was fooled by these tactics when GW Bush first ran. Not this time!
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by michelle63-2009 September 29, 2008 4:07 AM EDT
Barack Obama for President!
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by credibility2 September 29, 2008 3:07 AM EDT
Obama plays to the uncommitted masses because of his flash in the pan style, his swagger and braggadocio style, his wardrobing and makeup, and his phony superficial demeanor and rhetoric. It''s easy to charm the pants off of those not lacking in the northern parts of the anatomy. Obama was obnoxious and rude in the way he kept calling McCain by his first name; it showed his lack of respect and upbringing. At least McCain was decent enough by correctly referring to Obama as Senator. Obama''s smirking facial expressions also are a trademark of his inexperience and arrogance. His demeanor was inexcusable and offensive. Sad that so many identify with this type of juvenile behavior.
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by davidy007 September 29, 2008 1:32 AM EDT
Aside from McCain''''s inability to look Obama directly in the eye when he was addressing him, what struck me was McCain dwelling on the past while Obama was looking to the future. Many of the points McCain was making happened before much of the viewing audience was born --I presume they read about some of the events he talked about in their history books, but I''''m not sure it made him look more knowledgeable -- only old.


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Posted by ccc1900 at 10:58 PM : Sep 27, 2008
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It also shows fear of facing the facts, and that he is a lying weasel that cannot look someone square in the eyes...or he may have just been embarassed about dropping a creamy load his adult depends...
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by kerrycharles-2009 September 29, 2008 1:10 AM EDT

- WRONG POLL , WRONG POLL...
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by clovia77 September 28, 2008 9:02 PM EDT
mccain keeps saying obama is not ready to be president by misrepresenting obama''s positions. said obama was wrong for saying both sides should use restraint in georgia. and that kissinger never said to meet without preconditons kissinger "well, I am in favor of negotiating with iran.... But I do not believe that we can make conditons for the opening of negotiations. ''preconditions'' mean the same thing is this context. like saying sara palin''s daughter is "a little pregnant" or "pregnant" they mean the same thing. maybe she could explain that to senator mccain when she comes out of her hiding place. he ranted about obama jumping to the wrong conclusion, for not supporting Georgia strongly enough. kissinger "We need Russia for a solution of the Iranian problem....We have to face the fact that the first shot in Georgia was fired on the Georgian side." Senator mccain needs to stop deceiving the american public. Colin Powell says we should be talking with the iranians. Sec Baker says we should "engage for strategic reasons. Kissinger also says to engage them, so we can lay out our vision for a stable midddle east, and our notion on nuclear proliferation, so they can be clearly aware of our position and can study it. mccain is the only one who does not want to engage. war would surely follow his strategy. mccain seems to be most comfortable when we are in war mode.
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by brownpride46 September 28, 2008 7:48 AM EDT
We need change in the White House. However, we also need to do our due diligence. Devastating allegations are being weighed in a Philadelphia courthouse re: Obama''s citizenship. Why won''t Obama simply provide the court a certified vault copy of his birth certificate? Is Obama even eligible to be President? If the allegations are true, it will destroy our Democratic Party.

www.obamacrimes.com or GOOGLE: obama lawsuit

That''s why McCain was so smug during the debate. But do the same for McCain. www.mccaincrimes.com and GOOGLE: MCCAIN LAWSUIT.

We need Senator Obama to vanquish these allegations by providing the American public proof that he is not part of an elaborate scam.

Show us a certified vault copy of your birth certificate, so that we may vote you into office without reservation.

--concerned democrat
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by kolsa September 28, 2008 7:00 AM EDT
My post is in reply to Myopinion1 . You say Obama has No Experience No history and does not know what he is talking about. Do you really know how ignorant you sound ? you seem no better educated than some of the worlds most illiterate people and to think that you had the privelege of an American education shocks me beyond belief. It is this backward interpretation of attitude that has made America us the most unpopular nation on earth. More hated than the Soviet Union once used to be. The rest of the world is praying that Obama is elected to the presidency so that they are spared our ignorance despite our prosperity. The fact that we can buy and give some of these nations away for free has nothing to do with us being seen as bullies the world over. That is what John Mcain came across yesterday and thats what he will try to do should he be elected. Make the USA a pariah of world politics.
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by everym-2009 September 28, 2008 2:55 AM EDT
It is clear that McCain feels entitled to the presidency. He treats and talks to Obama like a little kid and as if Obama is a pesky little child in the way of McCains enaliable right to the presidential throne. It helped John Mccain to have a four star admiral for a daddy who covered up all of John McCain''s misdeeds. He was a family embarrassment and a Naval embarrassment too. Unfortunately, John Mccain can show arrogance until election day and White Americans despite the economic woes, his disasterous policies, war mongering attitude, deceptive language, lobbyist connections, unchangeable politics (voted 90% for republican policies the last eight years that put us in this position of economic devastation), lack of intelligience (graduated 894 out 899), being for de-regulation, being for the Iraq War (cost taxpayers 1 trillion dollars), will try to vote him ( third Bush)back in office rather than an African American! Its amazing to see White people hiding behind the experience, policies and judgment and race is their real issue. That racism! The only thing that really seems to turn him on is the prospect of more war.McCain admits he knows little about economics, yet he has endorsed George W. Bush%u2019s Iraq War, foreign policy, deregulation, no oversight 95% of the time, BUT, HE WANTS AMERICANS TO BELIEVE OTHERWISE! WE ARE NOT STUPID
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by ccc1900 September 28, 2008 2:51 AM EDT
MyOpinion1
I think you put the silver spoon in the wrong mouths -- Cindy and John McCain are wealthy beyond measure. Michelle and Barack Obama had to work their way through college with loans and scholarships to earn their undergraduate and graduate degrees. Correct me if I''m wrong, but as I understand it McCain graduated almost at the bottom of his class while Obama graduated first in his class -- wow.
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by myopinion1 September 28, 2008 2:44 AM EDT
I was undecided BEFORE the debate and I will remain so, although I am certainly leaning towards McCain. Obama has NO experience, NO history, NO background in foreign policy, NO idea what he is talking about concerning taxes other than trying to make paying more sound good. Michelle and her if you want things to be good, everyone will need to pay theory, she makes me sick. Like they would ever have to worry about the working man when they have silver spoons shoved in their mouths! Give me a break. The McCains have years of experience, are older, more experienced in every facet of life and have what it takes to make it work. I STILL have not decided on McCain yet; I might still vote independent/Libertarian.
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by ccc1900 September 28, 2008 1:58 AM EDT
Aside from McCain''s inability to look Obama directly in the eye when he was addressing him, what struck me was McCain dwelling on the past while Obama was looking to the future. Many of the points McCain was making happened before much of the viewing audience was born --I presume they read about some of the events he talked about in their history books, but I''m not sure it made him look more knowledgeable -- only old.
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by ccc1900 September 28, 2008 1:52 AM EDT
Badger229 -- I don''t believe you ever supported Hillary Clinton - because if you truly supported her candidacy and the principles she ran on in her campaign how can you vote for McCain/Palin who are polar opposites of the values Hillary Clinton has been fighting for. Choice is the first thing that comes to mind, but equal pay for equal work, and health care reform to name just a few. No, I don''t think you ever supported Hillary Clinton -- you were enchanted with the idea of a woman president, but you couldn''t have serious espoused the themes Hillary Clinton has been fighting for her entire political life. It is your right as a citizen of the United States to vote for the candidate of your choice. But rest assured, your right to choose (among other freedoms) will be taken away by the McCain/Palin administration.
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by leftbehind81 September 28, 2008 1:43 AM EDT
LarryW4921 should research what socialism is before commenting about Obama being a socialist.

All of the problems that we have seen the last few weeks have been caused by the singular fact that we have given up on implementing fair regulation as a policy. We have forgotten the lessons of the great depression and have unrealistic optimism in a strict free market.
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