As much as we've been talking about political sound bytes in class, I agree with Slate's Christopher Beam about the lack of choice quotes and zingers in Friday's debate. With all of the disasters of the week, Americans need to hear what the candidates actually think - what they stand for, what they're going to vote for. The debate was a more stripped down, but still palpably tense discussion than the unfair campaign ads, misleading sound bytes, and sensational stories we've seen over the last month.
However, conservative columnists and bloggers are finding Obama gaffes left and right, and have said that Obama's deference on several points and willingness to look at McCain during the debate are a serious fault - it shows that Obama thinks John McCain is the alpha male.
Interestingly, it seems like many conservative bloggers justify their nitpicking with " If John McCain had done X, the liberal media would be all over it!"
Despite all this, the Gallup Poll says that more people thought Obama won the debate (46% to McCain's 34%) and thought that Obama had better solutions to the country's problems (52% to McCain's 35%).
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