Many iReporters noted that while McCain seemed to lose his temper, Obama maintained his composure during the debate.
While McCain supports the North American Free Trade Agreement, it has remained a hot-button issue for Democratic voters.
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Obama was criticized as "too circular" while McCain was praised for his directness.
CNN's latest poll of polls shows Obama drawing 49 percent of voters nationwide, while McCain stands at 43 percent.
While McCain's proposal sets an annual cap on suits against the tobacco industry, any cap will be a point of contention.
Obama has repeatedly called for a timetable for troop withdrawal, while McCain supports a withdrawal based on conditions on the ground.
Obama tried to paint his rival as an extension of George W. Bush, while McCain sought to portray the Democrat as a tax-and-spend liberal.
Forbes had submitted close to 80, 000 signatures covering all 31 districts, while McCain's campaign submitted 27, 000 names covering only 26 of the 31 districts.
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While McCain is occasionally asked about the subject, he remains quiet on specifics -- and rarely talks unprompted about either God or guns on the stump.
While McCain and Obama jointly called for bipartisan cooperation on the economic crisis, in a separate statement Obama outlined some principles he said should guide the legislation and called on McCain to support them.
The Associated Press reported that while McCain has pushed for less regulation, he also supported a shorter leash for, and greater accountability on behalf of, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac some two years before the financial crisis began.
And while McCain strikes most Europeans as a decent sort of guy, a guy who can at least speak in sentences with the nouns and verbs in the right places, it's Obama who's the supernova in the political sky.
But while McCain has largely been absent from several of these traditionally red states all summer, the Obama campaign has aggressively built ground organizations in many of these states, outspent its GOP rival considerably on staff and television commercials, and worked to register tens of thousands of new voters.
For example, while McCain correctly stresses the need to maintain such a deterrent, he simultaneously endorses several initiatives seemingly adopted from the playbook of prominent proponents of de-nuclearization, including, notably, former Republican Secretaries of State George Shultz and Henry Kissinger, former Clinton Secretary of Defense William Perry, and former Democratic Senator Sam Nunn.
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Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama used them on the campaign trail, while John McCain didn't.
Obama can afford to produce positive and negative ads that could serve to soften his own image while hurting McCain's, Campaign Media Analysis Group's Evan Tracey, CNN's consultant on ad spending said.
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Both men have a logical claim to victory in the Granite State that could make a loss very tough to recover from: Romney was the governor of neighboring Massachusetts, while, McCain won the GOP primary here in 2000.
He still garnered more Christians than McCain while Republicans tallied fewer votes in total.
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The Democrats wouldn't reject even strongly liberal candidates, while the most McCain would be able get past Congress is an Anthony Kennedy-style moderate.
In response, Mr Obama has softened his opposition to offshore drilling, while denouncing Mr McCain as a lapdog of the oil industry who will do little to bring down prices.
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So this week, while Huckabee and McCain have concentrated on South Carolina's GOP primary on January 19th and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has been looking to Tuesday's Michigan caucuses, Giuliani has been looking farther down the road.
John McCain, while former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee split the conservative vote.
Those most worried about the war and terrorism supported McCain, while voters worried about immigration went with Romney.
On the flipside, he says, Thompson is spending far less money than Republican rivals Mitt Romney and John McCain, while outperforming them in national polls.
Early exit polls conducted by the Associated Press and TV Networks showed that moderate voters and older voters supported McCain, while those attending church most often (more than once a week) more often voted for Huckabee.
The poll, conducted in New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Florida, Virginia, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada, found that 51% of rural voters said they would vote for Mr McCain, while 41% preferred Mr Obama.
While it energized conservatives, McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as a running mate may have alienated moderate Republicans like Powell, Wall said.
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Holland also pointed out that despite a concerted outreach by the McCain-Palin team to former women supporters of Hillary Clinton's presidential bid, women nationwide seem to be sticking with Obama -- 52 percent of women are planning to vote Democratic, while 45 percent are backing McCain.
While the Democrats pummel each other John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, swans around the country burnishing his reputation.
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