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I’m calling it a draw… I though Sen. McCain did much better on the economy and health care than he did in the first debate. He slammed Sen. Obama on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and challenged the assumption that is was deregulation caused the financial crisis. He completely lost me with mortgage buy up program though.
Both candidates did very well on health care. McCain made a strong pitch for free market solutions, Obama pushing a big government solution. Ditto entitlement reform.
Foreign policy and national security are John McCain’s strong suits and his saviors tonight. I had it as a draw or slight lead for Sen. Obama up until the last 30 minutes or so, McCain simply outclassed Obama. Sen. Obama still couldn’t offer a coherent policy on Russia and equivocated on support for Israel.
Ed Morrissey has a more complete recap and analysis at Hot Air. Michelle Malkin has the details on McCain’s “American Home Ownership Resurgence Plan” (AKA the $300 billion Crap sandwich light).
As an aside I thought Tom Brokaw a far better and more even handed job as moderator than either Jim Lehrer or Gwen Ifill.
Gotta disagree with you here. Obama flopped on most of the Domestic issues, the only ones he didn’t flop on were the ones where he gave no specifics. McCain was direct and specific, and he you could tell the audience was engaged when he was speaking. This was a bad debate for Obama, in a year with a bad economy he should be able to knock this issue out of the park, instead McCain won that part handidly, and frankly the Foreign policy parts of this debate were irrelevant. Everyone knows McCain knows Foreign Policy, what they need to know is whether Obama is ready to lead particularly on the economy. This wasn’t a total Victory for McCain, but he certainly broke the expectations.