[OtterXO]

I actually thought McCain did better last night than the other debates. Like a few people have said though, the trouble with "doing better" is that right now he's not trying to win over conservatives, he's trying to win the swing voters. For a voter like me (who admittedly has been leaning Obama since the announcement of Palin as VP) he needed to explain how Palin wasn't a liability and how he wouldn't make it a priority overturn Roe v. Wade. Instead he doesn't explain anything about Palin and basically says that he would pick judges based on qualifications but (really fast at the end of his answer - I almost didn't catch it) that he "do[es] not believe that someone who has supported Roe v. Wade that would be part of those qualifications."

I think for people who already supported McCain, it was a good debate. Definitely his best of the three. But I don't think he addressed the issues that independent voters are focused on, at least where I live.