Round 1 in debates goes to Obama, poll says (CNN)

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Source: CNN

OXFORD, Mississippi (CNN) -- A national poll of people who watched the first presidential debate suggests that Barack Obama came out on top, but there was overwhelming agreement that both Obama and John McCain would be able to handle the job of president if elected.

Fifty-one percent of those polled thought Obama did the best job in Friday night's debate, while 38 percent said John McCain did the best.

Men were nearly evenly split between the two candidates, with 46 percent giving the win to McCain, and 43 percent to Obama. But women voters tended to give Obama higher marks, with 59 percent calling him the night's winner, while just 31 percent said McCain won.

Poll interviews were conducted with 524 adult Americans who watched the debate and were conducted by telephone on September 26. All interviews were done after the end of the debate. The margin of error for the survey is plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.

The results may be favoring Obama simply because more Democrats than Republicans tuned into the debate. Of the sample of debate-watchers questioned in this poll, 41 percent of the respondents identified themselves as Democrats, 27 percent Republicans and 30 percent independents.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/27/debate.poll/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

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CNN falls all over themselves in the rest of the article trying to question its own polling.