I thought that McCain was very weak during the Republican convention. He exceeded my expectation today. He was quite good in separating himself from Bush. I don’t agree with McCain and I want Obama to win the presidency. But today’s debate was a tie in my view. Once again MCain proved that he can speak intelligently about foreign policy but simply recycles Ronald Reagan statement on the economy.  The most interesting summary of reaction to the debate was published on Time.com.

From TIME’s Amy Sullivan:
Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg ran a dial-group with 45 undecided voters in St. Louis during the debate, polling them before and after to judge how the event changed their reactions to Obama and McCain. The group was mostly middle-aged, split evenly among education and class lines, and was heavily comprised of Bush 2004 voters.
First things first, the group thought Obama “won” the debate (38 to 27%, with 36% saying that neither candidate walked away with a clear win). But that judgment didn’t necessarily mean the Democrat won more support from the voters. At the beginning, they were all undecided; after the debate, half still weren’t sure who’d they vote for and the remainder split evenly between the two candidates.
The biggest shifts of the evening came on perceptions of personal attributes and on the issue of national security. Although the first half of the debate focused on economic questions and those concerns generally rank at the top of voter concerns, these St. Louis voters didn’t really hear anything that moved them. They responded positively to McCain’s emphasis on reducing spending and they didn’t respond negatively to anything Obama said about the economy. But at the end of the day, there was no shift in answer to the question of which candidate they trusted to handle the economy.
Both candidates saw their net favorability ratings rise over the course of the evening. McCain started off with a 22-point net and gained 9 points. But Obama went from a 6-point net favorability to plus-45, a shift of 39 points that placed him higher than McCain at the end of the debate (69% versus 62%).
McCain was seen as the more negative of the two