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Both presidential candidates received positive reviews after their first debate, but voters who tuned-in to the event offered very different impressions of the two men; \u201cconfident\u201d is the word used most often by voters to describe Obama\u2019s debate performance while \u201cexperienced\u201d is the most common description of McCain\u2019s. (The tallies of the one-word descriptions of the candidates are the actual numbers of respondents offering that description rather than percentages.) \u201cInexperienced\u201d and \u201cintelligent\u201d tied for the second most used descriptor of Obama\u2019s performance, with \u201cpresidential\u201d close behind in third place. The second most used descriptor of McCain\u2019s debate was \u201cold,\u201d followed by \u201cknowledgeable\u201d and \u201cconfident.\u201d Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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