The Mad Rants of an Unconventional Soccer Mom

Easily goes to Team Obama.  That makes it 3 - 0.  There's no doubt about what the papers and talking heads will be saying tomorrow.  In fact here is the focus group of undecideds on CNN:

Who expressed his views more clearly in the debate?
Obama 60
McCain 30

Who spent more time attacking his opponent?
Obama 17
McCain 63

Who seemed to be the stronger leader?
Obama 54
McCain 43

Who was most likeable?
Obama 65
McCain 28

Will people vote for a person that they don't even find likeable?  No good news for McCain there...or should I say in a snarky, disrespectful, condensending, asshole way:  for that one.  That one could not mask his disdain for Senator Obama. 

McCain somehow needed to change the game tonight. He didn't. All of his attempts to paint Obama as foreign and dangerous are undercut by his performances, time and time again. Obama once again came off as presidential, while that one came off as peevish and angry. People will trust what they see themselves because they have certainly grown distrusting of McCain's campaign rhetoric.

My guess is that in about two day Obama will pick up another couple of point.  Right now he up nationally about 9 points.  That's an electorial blowout!  I just wish my own state would turn blue.  It's trending that way, but I'm not sure there is enough time left for it actually to happen. 

Oh...and one last thing before I go dream about an Obama presidency:  I love the ekg style tracking on CNN.  The insta-response monitors hooked up to the undecideds completely short circuits the ability of the right-wing noise machine to ramp up the "our guy won because the Democrat sighed" bull crap.  It's hard for the wingnuts to make their case that McCain won when the numbers are instantly so starkly in the opposition.