I havent listened to any post debate analysis, so I'm honestly not sure what the general consensus is. honestly, i think tonight was a drawl. Obama was a little more aggressive, and brought up a few key points (McCains confusion about Spain for example) but that, for example, wasnt really highly publicized by the media, so I'm sure that people just casually following this didnt really notice it. Neither of them did awful, neither of them hit it out of the park either. They each had jabs, but I dont think anyone on the fence wouldve been swayed either way by this particular debate.
I did like however, notice, that when Obama was pointing out McCains negatives, McCain had this creepy, odd smirk on this face. When McCain was pointing out Obama's negatives, his temperament was much more...i guess..."presidential." Im not sure what word to really use, but Obama did better with that. McCain came off very smug at times, Obama did not.