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Not looking to change anyone's mind in this thread. There's a 77+ page thread going over here that's geared more towards that. But I saw the 1st poll question of this thread over on SDS's other boards dark place (PPP) and thought it would be interesting to have the question asked over on the more left leaning of the 2 boards. I'm curious what effect people think the debates had on how people will act in 14 days. IMHO, the 1st debate was a clear win for the challenger, the 2nd debate was a narrow win for the incumbent (though the tone of the debate probably lowered favorability of both with women), and the 3rd (when looking at what each candidate was looking to get out of the debate - namely the challenger wanted to look 'Presidential' and someone who could be Commander in Chief and the incumbent wanted to make the challenger out to be a war monger) went to the challenger as he didn't come out looking like a war monger. OH will be interesting. I expect the incumbent thought the bailout would be a winner there and the reason he brought it up. The challenger being able to say essentially 'you're lying about my position again' may make that one not the slam dunk the incumbent expected it to be. My guess is that Romney is in the lead now, but there is still nearly an eternity (14 days) to the election. And, if he is in the lead, the debates are what put him there. There was 1 big win and then 2 close ones.