What Is Behind John McCain's Total Lack Of Eye Contact With Barack Obama

Josh Silver @ TPM has a great take on this, and the comments are the best. Whenever you can start making analogies to primate behavior, you know it's getting good.

I think people really are missing the point about McCain's failure to look at Obama. McCain was afraid of Obama. It was really clear--look at how much McCain blinked in the first half hour. I study monkey behavior--low ranking monkeys don't look at high ranking monkeys. In a physical, instinctive sense, Obama owned McCain tonight and I think the instant polling reflects that. (TPM reader, TB)

Chris Matthews (MSNBC) and Eugene Robinson (Washington Post) discuss: