Mercifully this is over. Three nights of rephrasing the same answers to the same questions. At least they were made to stand differently at each one. That's change we can believe in. What was different about this one? Sitting. Also Bob Schieffer brought up abortion, education and gave the candidates a chance to insult each other to their face.
John McCain had an interesting debate strategy. He decided to pitch every one of his answers to a Joe the Plumber. Every answer had a Joe the Plumber reference. If you swapped it into your drinking game it definitely got you more messed up than "my friends". It is unclear if Joe the Plumber will accept McCain's offer to be in the cabinet or if voters will penalize McCain for not addressing his concerns to the construction worker, cowboy...and wasn't there an indian? McCain also decided to unveil a menagerie of angry facial tics, shrugs, eye rolls, eye bug outs, and generally mug so much for the camera that he should have had a handle on his head.
Obama played defense. More to the point he played the mid-nineties New Jersey Devils neutral zone trap. Having a lead and then shutting it down with stifling defense and making sure that you gave up no scoring opportunities. I guess it worked.
Stanley Greenburg ran a focus group of undecided voters in Colorado that tilted heavily to McCain leaners. McCain started with a 54 favorable / 34 unfavorable rating and ended with a 50 favorable / 48 unfavorable. Obama started at 42 favorable / 42 unfavorable and ended at 72 favorable / 22 unfavorable. They were audibly snickering at McCain. CBS scored it 53-22 and CNN 58-31, both for Obama. Mac got to bring up Ayers, ACORN, George Wallace, John Lewis, his hurt feelings, abortion and everything he wanted. He lost the debate about as badly as he could have.
Maybe it was McCain's decision to claim that "health of the mother" provisions in abortion laws were total scams and his seeming insistence that you could make everything better with total spending freezes and efficiency improvements. The bizarre mime show he put on didn't help. Obama seemed to win big on education, his idea that parents should take more responsibility for education, and for seeming like a sane person you wouldn't cross the street to get away from. Voters like sanity.
So as we trudge on, we all know this is over, right? McCain is finished, right? I'm not getting to ahead of myself? Far left freaks now control America. we can now openly hate America. Open the borders and let the flood of illegal Mexican abortion doctors come. Call Hugo Chavez and tell him we want all our oil from him. Sorry we had to lie about you Mr. Ayers, go bomb the RNC and enjoy being the Minister of Education. Finally, socialized medicine and mandatory gay marriage! I'm getting light headed, this is all so wonderful.
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