The final debate tonight sealed the deal for Barack Obama. The polls before the debate showed him with a double-digit lead in states where that wasn’t supposed to be the case. And the instant polls right after the debate all showed Obama as winning–even Fox!

McCain was extremely angry and combative, attacking Barack at every opportunity. I watched the tail end of the debate again on CNN, looking at McCain’s face on the split screen an watching the “ticker” at the bottom of the screen. It was very obvious the second time around that McCain was losing.

All the political blogs are also saying that Obama won. Fivethirtyeight.com even went so far as to close out their live debate blog with the words “President Obama”! I am so ready.