Since I didn't follow the whole thing, I will defer to your saying that McCain was better. I will note, however, that I don't judge how funny something was by how much the audience laughed. I judge by what made me laugh.
Sounds like Fox picked some bad excerpts — I watched all of the McCain talk, close to 15 min., and here were many LOL lines. Maybe some of them wouldn’t translate well as soundbites and had to be heard in context, I don’t know. Of course humor can be completely subjective...... but I thought McCain was great.
Obama’s talk was OK, it gave me a few mild chuckles, but I did not find any of it to be LOL.
Well then maybe before you pass judgment you outta watch the whole thing.
No...I didn't 'let' the audience dictate to me who was the funnier of the two men, I merely mentioned it in passing, emphasizing that I was far from alone in my assessment of the ability of the two candidates in the success of their comedic delivery.
In fact, I have to say you are the ONLY person, I have heard or read that thought Obama was the better of the two acts and that says a lot when 99% of the media would love to have had Obama trample McCain on this night...and they would have said just that, if Obama had even been in the same ballpark as John.