I just watched a rerun of the debate on CNN. McCain just kept sounding like a broken record about "The Surge', and did nothing but chastise Obama because he didn't agree with it. What was interesting about the CNN coverage, was they had these three lines running across a grid representing the audience approval or disapproval of each candidates comments whenever they were answering the question at hand. One line was for the Reps, one for the Dems, and one for the Independents. The solid line in the middle of the grid was neutral, anything above the line was positive approval, below the line was negative approval. Out of the 6 questions I watched each candidate answer, when McCain was answering, the responses were slightly positive to mid-positive, then neutral, then when he began attacking Obama, they went negative. This Reps stayed higher than the other two when he was speaking, but at times, they skewed along with the Dems and Independents. Obama's stayed mostly positive, some highly positive, with the lines of all three party's staying the same most of the time (the Reps line did fall lower than the other two quite a few times). What was most interesting was when McCain was responding to a question, and his responses were mostly neutral, the lines would start going more positive when Obama gave a rebuttal. As soon as Obama ended his rebuttal, and McCain did another counter, the lines would drop back down to neutral, and even go negative depending on the question. Then as soon as Obama countered again, the lines would start going positive again. Not sure what the demographics of the audience was, or how many were being used for respondents, but based on the lines, they disagreed more with McCain's opinion and responses than they did Obama.