Why the Debate has Legs

Why the Debate has Legs

The Twitterverse was all, well, a-twitter Monday afternoon when the Pew Research Center for The People & The Press released the result of its national poll that had been in the field post-debate.

The poll showed that among likely voters, Mitt Romney was leading Barack Obama by four percentage points: 49-45.

For the past 36 hours pundits, reporters, and analysts have been poring over the 39 page report, picking out the things that they have found most dramatic.

-- Nearly half of the people who identified themselves as "middle class" now see Romney's policies helping them. He...