Let me start by answering some of my own questions from earlier this evening:

Obama looked just as presidential as McCain.  McCain did say repeatedly that Obama did not have the experience and judgment to be president, but my guess is that more people were watching than listening.

I didn't detect any major gaffes and there were no memorable one-liners from either candidate.

McCain definitely did not deliver a knockout blow on foreign policy.  Obama didn't win on this issue but he definitely didn't lose.  That's all he had to do.

And now for a few new thoughts:

1.  Neither candidate made much of an impression on the economic questions.

2.  I was surprised that Obama did not ask McCain which specific programs he would cut as president.

3.  Obama was clearly well prepared on the foreign policy answers.  His responses were strong and informed.

4.  Maybe it was my imagination, but McCain seemed to have a certain amount of distain for Obama.

5.  My least substantive comment: McCain's tie was awful.

6.  McCain was clearly trying to connect himself with the GOP of the past and to distance himself from the GOP of today.  He invoked Reagan, Eisenhower, Kissinger, and even Nixon to describe himself and talked several times about his differences with the current administration.

My overall thought is that the result of the debate was that both candidates probably reinforced the feelings of their supporters but did not win new converts. 

That makes it a draw.  But since McCain was the one who needed to use this  debate to reverse his recent slide in the polls, a draw might not be good enough.