Presidential Debate: John McCain vs. Barack Obama - Who Won? [Poll]
Published on October 7th, 2008
[Editor's Note: On the heels of our first RG&B debate poll conducted to gauge public opinion on the first and only vice-presidential debate, we've decided to follow up with a poll for the top of the ticket.]
John McCain and Barack Obama squared off in the second of three Presidential Debates this election season. Tell us who won and why?
Click Here to Answer the RG&B Poll Question: Who Won Tuesday Night’s Presidential Debate?
Obama was much smarter, impressive and better informed, also more elegant, stylish, well-mannered and with a presidential gravitas. In contrast McCain was repetitious, platitudious, stiff, aged, ignorant and unpresidential in addition to being arrogant and petulant.
Guess who won?
Obama won handily with well mannered poise and erudition.
McCain was arrogant, stiff, repeating platitudes, frightningly ignorant.
I dont’t understand why i’m hearing that John McCain won the second debate. Was anyone paying attention? That he’s a stubborn old man that does nothing but point fingers and forget what america is really about. Obama is the clear winner. And im not judging just on his ability of being a better speaker, but to me Obama has a plan to get us out of this embarrassing crisis that we are in. It’s the 21st century people. The world is changing around us and we need to adapt. We need to talk to foreign countrys before we cowboy our way into another Iraq. The energy crisis is real. Why are we paying the most for gas then ever now. What was that again Palin? “Drill baby, Drill”
I watched the issues, and the one that strikes me, and SHOULD strike everyone EVENLY is environmental policies. What are we going to do with the way we use our energy? I disliked McCain’s response that he wants to use nuclear as well as oil and I admired Obama and how he wants to do alternative energy sources. He says he is open to new ideas. I disagree with McCain that, if we pull out our troops, there will be issues.
Also, I think that the older you are, the more you are RESISTANT to change and do NOT want to change or develop! McCain is old, therefore, change wants not.
I am so tired of hearing that Obama Won, He did a good job both of them did! But I hate to be the one to also say that they both were unprofessional, and they both went through mudslinging and finger pointing Tuesday night! Every President raises taxes, every president promises things that are unable to do and if we find one that promises to not do as such then there will be a bridge to somewhere better; there will be the CHANGE! And honestly What did Sarah say during her last debate there was alot of questions she was unable to answer Yes, but also She stated VERY CLEARLY there is not one thing that her and Senator McCain has promised that they will not be able to finish! Obama and Biden named off 10 things they will not be able to complete! So who really knows what Obama will be able to really fulfill? At least there is something McCain is promising that he and Sarah said will not be deleted after Election! And that is that Health, Energy, and International Security will stand as the most important things to change! And all 3 will be started immediately after election!
Obama said that Energy is the most important issue right now! I understand Obama’s eye on that I have 4 members in my family 2 - under the age of 10 and then my husband and I. Only one source of income due to no jobs! My husband makes only 10 dollars and hour with hopefully 40 hour weeks, which after the taxes puts us at under 20k a year. So I know about being broke and not having enough money to even pay all the bills let alone going out to eat dinner at restaurants I can not afford and on gas I can not afford. Our family would NOT be able to supply insurance for our kids yeah it is alot cheaper then adults but I am unable to afford ANY of it. I would love to give health benefits to my family, and if I am unable to do so….Obama thinks hey there is another way to make money there….Lets taxes the ones who can’t supply insurance for their kids…How will that help anyone but him? I mean that makes me think Obama gets to retire comfortably while we all continue to work our butts off.
I come from a family who has never want to be apart of the Presidential Election I am one of the one they did not expect to vote but is going to so the CHANGE can be made! And are they trying to persuade my opinion? I Hope; but people please listen to the words and not the slurs, because everyone seems to be getting caught up in the storm and not looking at the damage the storm has done! I really feel like both parties were not meaning to point fingers but merely trying to explain what they are there standing up for and in there words what the other party was there standing up for!
I do have one question for everyone!
Would you rather your army being lead by someone who IS prepared for that situation, or someone who THINKS they are prepared for that situation?
Because no matter what we are going to go to war again after we are done in
And
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama said at the Oct. 7 presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee, that when Republican opponent Sen. John McCain “was cheerleading the president to go into Iraq, he suggested it was going to be quick and easy, we’d be greeted as liberators.”
McCain said, on MSNBC’s Hardball on March 24, 2003, that “there’s no doubt in my mind that once these people (the Saddam Hussein regime) are gone that then we will be welcomed as liberators.”
McCain Never Stated we’d be greeted as liberators, he said once these people (the Saddam Hussein regime) are gone that then we will be welcomed as liberators.”
So who is Twisting to WORDS??????
good im glad all you obama supporters are happy right now,and i hope alll of you are saying the same things in four years from now!we’ll see!
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Now, I’m noramally a Democrat, but I don’t trust a thing Obama says. Isn’t a Democrat supposed to be for the people? I don’t believe he is. I believe that under the things he purposed in this debate that we will just go into another Great Depression. McCain clearly won this.
Obama was very disrespectful, he went over the time limits more than McCain. He interupted the moderater. And beat around the bush on a lot of questions. And the biggest thing that annoyed me was that he says gonna. We’re gonna this, we’re gonna that. It’s GOING TOO.
Obama won handily displaying well-mannered poise and sounded presidential and erudite.
In contrast, McCain seemed stiff,old and arrogant, with repetitous cliches and frighteningly ignorant of the changing world. His repeated mantras about American exceptionalism were not only insulted the intelligence of informed Americans but also the feelings of non-Americans.