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THREE OUT OF THREE

The snap polls, the viewers, over half the pundits all say that Obama had McCain last night.

The anger management classes didn't work. McCain was his McNasty self.

Actually, I thought McCain did better than he did before. He was sitting down, no lurching. He was pretty coherent in the beginning. He couldn't say "Barack" but he did name Obama a few times. Mostly in attacking him.

I thought that Obama's co-option of Joe the Plumber was masterful. Particularly when he used Joe to answer the left-over-from-the-last-debate question about fines for businesses that didn't have health insurance.

It gave us the 'deer in the headlights' moment. Watch McCain go limp.

Bad prep. The trouble with negative attacks is that a candidate begins to believe his or her own bullshit eventually. And when called on it, the candidate gets a burst of reality like this one.

Labels: Barack Obama, election, McCain