Instant reaction polls after the third and final Presidential debate revealed that nearly half of people who watched the debate said President Obama won the final faceoff with Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
The CNN/ORC instant poll revealed that the incumbent won on style as he choose to constantly attack his GOP opponent from the very beginning of the debate and scored debating points consistently throughout the 90 minutes.
Forty-eight percent of the surveyed opined Obama fared better in the debate against 40 percent who felt Romney did. CNN said Obama's win was within the margin of error. While 63 percent of respondents said President Obama could handle the job as commander-in-chief, 60 percent went for Romney.
According to a CBS News poll of 521 uncommitted voters, 53 percent said President Obama made a significant victory in the final debate and just 23 percent voted that Romney won the debate. 24 percent felt the debate was a tie. The poll was conducted immediately after the final presidential debate.
While 49 percent of the voters said they would trust Romney to handle international crisis, an overwhelmingly 71 percent voted for Obama. 64 percent of the instant poll of uncommitted voters said Obama would do a better job on terrorism and national security than Romney (36) and the voters were evenly split on who would better handle China.
While Obama was fiery and on the attack constantly, Romney ended up agreeing with the Obama foreign policy decisions most of the time. However, political analysts suggest that Romney has successfully maintained the momentum that he had generated ever since the first presidential debate. He still manages to convince the voters that he could be their commander-in-chief who can keep them out of war.
The Public Policy Polling survey of debate watchers showed that Obama won the debate by 51 percent to Romney's 47 percent.
Some opined that the debate was quite disappointing as the candidates spend 30 minutes of the 90-minute debate on the economy than foreign policy. Neither of the candidates could give a satisfactory answer when moderator Bob Schieffer asked "what is the greatest future threat to the national security of America?" President Obama said terrorism and Governor Romney said a nuclear Iran.
