Those who didn't see this last Demcratic debate before next week's 22 Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses may be interested in this dailykos diary which also contains a number of embedded Barack Obama videos from that debate, and hundreds of poster comments: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/1/01336/71094/85/447397
Why Barack Obama may have won the Nomination Tonight by kubla000 Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 09:13:36 PM PST
This diary also contains post-debate opinions of various newscasters. These newscasters either concluded that Obama won this debate, or that it was a tie.
Here's an excerpt of these reporter's conclusion about how Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton did in that debate:
Mark Halperin's grades: Clinton: A- Obama: A-
On Obama: "Tenaciously drove his four core issues (change, unity, inspiration, problem solving), and incorporated them into almost every answer."
** Andrew Sullivan
He neutralized her on healthcare and simply cleaned up on the war in Iraq. But most crucial: he seemed like a president. He was already battling McCain. She was still pivoting off Bush. In his body language, he carefully upstaged her, without looking as if he were trying. By the end of the debate, he was pulling her chair back for her. I'd say that he won the primary election tonight.
** Marc Ambinder
And twenty minutes of Iraq happened. And so I'll give Obama the edge. Clinton was forced, for about 20 minutes, to recapitulate her vote on Iraq, over and over again. It was tough for her. She seemed to mire herself in the details of history.
Obama came into the debate moving up in polls across the country. His presence was, for the first 45 minutes or so, commanding. His opening statement was pitch perfect, segueing from praise for his rivals to the heart of his message. He ably made his case that this is a change election and the trajectory of change is steeper with Obama. His late-in-the-debate answer on Iraq was much better than hers.
-snip-
This diary also includes a Fox News video of undecided California voters who watched that debate. The group of undecided voters {White, Black, and Latino} overwhelmingly indicated that Barack Obama won that debate.