Voters who are still "undecided". That likely means people who haven't been paying any attention or are partisans who are lying about their choice. I wouldn't expect the best set of questions.
Still, I thought there were a couple of good questions. The flat out question on Iran attacking Israel was a good one, I thought. McCain answered it fairly well. Obama's answer was kind of weird. I liked his strong statements about preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and he was unequivocal about the UN not preventing us from acting in our own interests. But he didn't seem to actually answer the question straight up, though what he did say seemed to make it fairly clear. I just would have liked a "yes" or "no" in addition to the rest. McCain's answer on the "Evil Empire" question was his best of the night I thought. It showed a nuance he has frequently been lacking and really struck me positively. I thought that Obama's answers on the economy and healthcare were much more solid than McCain's. I especially liked Obama coming out and flat out saying "healthcare is a fundamental human right". Others may disagree, but that is an unequivocal position that I like to see. McCain's answer to the question of prioritization between health care, energy independence and entitlement reform was bogus. "We can and must do all three at once"? I'd like to see him try to pass health care reform and entitlement reform all at once even with a super-majority in the Senate and House. Any President, even with both houses of Congress on his side, are going to have to use a lot of arm wringing, horse trading and political capital to deal with any one of those issues, let alone all three at once. Obama stands the best chance of doing it since he'll have a friendly Congress on his side. But even then it will be an uphill battle within his party and Congress in general. At least Obama was able to prioritize them. Overall I felt that Obama did better on healthcare and the economy, McCain did better on foreign policy and it wasn't a huge advantage for either of them either way. Judah On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ugh, that was boring. McCain dropped a huge bomb right at the beginning with > that mortgage buy-up proposal, and then it was a snoozer for 90 minutes. Tom > Brokaw really blew it with the question selection. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:272981 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
