John McCain had a very strong debate tonight. It's too bad for him that it came on a night when Barack Obama was nearly flawless.-- Stephen Hayes, The Weekly Standard.
Foreign policy didn't come up much in tonight's presidential debate; but when it did, Sen. John McCain--whose strengths lie in this realm--seemed surprisingly unsteady while Sen. Barack Obama came off as more sure-footed than he did in the first contest.-- Fred Kaplan, Slate.
The answer to all these questions, I think, is clearly no. So McCain’s performance was a dismal failure.-- Ed Whelan, The Corner.
Reactions like these are all over the web. Read this email to Kathryn Jean Lopez on National Review's The Corner. I'm not ready to say the campaign's over like many on the right are doing. There's still four weeks left and a lot could happen. But I do see an end in sight.
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