John McCain and Barack Obama clash in their second televised debate of the campaign. The debate is conducted along the lines of a town hall meeting, with questions being posed by audience members.
KEY QUOTES
"There was an energy bill on the floor of the Senate loaded down with goodies, billions for the oil companies, and it was sponsored by Bush and Cheney. You know who voted for it? You might never know. That one." John McCain
Barack Obama on the invasion of Iraq
"For my mother to die of cancer at the age of 53 and have to spend the last months of her life in the hospital room arguing with insurance companies because they're saying that this may be a pre-existing condition and they don't have to pay her treatment, there's something fundamentally wrong about that." Barack Obama
"One of the real catalysts, really the match that lit this fire was Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I'll bet you, you may never even have heard of them before this crisis." John McCain
"Senator McCain, in the last debate and today, again, suggested that I don't understand. It's true. There are some things I don't understand. I don't understand how we ended up invading a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, while Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda are setting up base camps and safe havens to train terrorists to attack us." Barack Obama
"You know, my hero is a guy named Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt used to say 'talk softly, but carry a big stick'. Senator Obama likes to talk loudly." John McCain
"My wife, Michelle, is there and she could give you a much longer list than I do. And most of the time, I learn it by asking her." Barack Obama explains what he doesn't know, and how he would learn it
"I know what it's like in dark times. I know what it's like to have to fight to keep one's hope going through difficult times. I know what it's like to rely on others for support and courage and love in tough times. I know what it's like to have your comrades reach out to you and your neighbours and your fellow citizens and pick you up and put you back in the fight. That's what America's all about." John McCain
"It has been about as big a wipe-out as I can remember in a presidential debate. It reminds me of the 1992 Clinton-Perot-Bush debate. I don't really see how the McCain campaign survives this." Andrew Sullivan, Atlantic Monthly
"Because he's trailing, we needed to see something different from McCain tonight. It wasn't a bad night for him, and most of his answers were fine. But there wasn't anything that any of us are going to remember in a couple of days..." Jim Geraghty, National Review
NUMBER NEWS
Just as in the first presidential debate, and the vice-presidential debate, the Democrats seem to have won the night, if the polls are to be believed.
CNN polled debate-watchers, of whom 54% said Barack Obama had done the best job, while 30% gave the victory to John McCain.
CNN also broke down their data by party, and found that independent voters felt that both Democrats and Independents thought that Mr Obama had won the debate.
CBS conducted a poll of undecided voters only, and found that 39% adjudged Mr Obama the winner, 27% Mr McCain, with 35% calling it a draw.
DAILY PICTURE
The two men will meet once more before election day, at the last presidential debate at Hofstra University, New York state on 15 October.
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