My initial thoughts after viewing presidential debate number two and the snap polls that followed: fucking undecideds.
I've got a pretty intense distaste for those potential voters who have yet to make up their minds. Unless you're completely isolated from all forms of media and information dispersal in general, you should have made a decision by now. But that's a side-rant, here's the main rant:
Compare the CBS snap poll of 'undecided' voters from the first debate to the CBS poll from tonight's debate.
Who won: Obama McCain Margin for Obama Draw
debate 1 39 25 +14 36
debate 2 39 27 +12 34
It's essentially the same. But it sure looked to me that Obama did much better and McCain did much worse in this debate, and this sentiment is backed-up by the CNN poll of all watchers (Obama debate 1: +13; Obama debate 2: +24).
This leads me to conclude that about 65% of these 'undecided' voters that CBS is polling are, in fact, decided, while the other 35% or so are the kind of fucking idiots who buy whatever the last ad they saw told them to and believe whatever the last pundit they heard tells them is true. These 35% will likely just pick whichever name comes first on their ballots.
/* I also posted this on my TPM blog and my website, I'm hoping that's not frowned upon.