Assessment by TPM As To Why Some Say McCain Won The Debate (When The Polls Did Not)

This makes a lot of sense to me. All of the general polls show Obama winning the debate from what I have found so far. But quite a few pundits disagree. Even David Yepsen from our paper, The Des Moines Register; handed it to McCain. Why?

Here's part of this article:

Obama’s eye contact was directly with the camera, i.e. the voters at home. McCain seemed to be speaking literally to the people in the room in Mississippi, but figuratively to the punditry. It is no surprise that a small majority of pundits seemed to have thought that McCain won, even when the polls indicated otherwise; the pundits were his target audience.