McCain's anger Problem.
I came away after watching the debate thinking it was a draw or either Obama or McCain had edged out winning the debate by a few points, I was surprised to see that most other Americans watching the debate disagreed with that and thought Obama won by a mile if you go with the polls that came out yesterday and the focus groups that were taking.
The only reason I think many Americans declared Obama the winner was simply because of the likability factor, Obama came away as the more likable guy while McCain came across as angry, mean and disrespectful to his opponent. He wouldn't look Obama once in the eyes. While I would never want our presidents chosen solely on the bases of who would you like to have a beer or a steak with, you gotta admit millions of Americans simple choose their presidents on solely those grounds. Many Americans want to like the person that will be on their TV screens for the next four years and McCain totally failed on those grounds.
You only need to go back to 2000 and 2004 and see what I'm talking about, While Gore and Kerry were far more smarter and able than Bush. Millions of Americans still voted for him because they liked him more than the other two. Even though now we can see the results of solely choosing a president because he was likable, Bush as been an absolute failure and those Americans who voted for him solely because he was likable are now the ones suffering the consequences.
But still there's no doubt in my mind that millions of Americans especially the casual voters who don't participate in the primaries will solely go into the voting booth to vote for the person they think is more likable of the two presidential candidates. I'm just glad this year that not only do we have the more smarter candidate on our side but he's also the more likable of the two presidential candidates.
John McCain and his camp should be pissing in their pants right now, this election that seemed like a long shot just became a more longer shot than ever all because McCain couldn't even for a second smile and not look like an angry old man who wanted to eat all of our children.