Who won the Last Debate? LALATE has the polls in on who won tonight’s third and last presidential debate. The key number concerning who won is among uncommitted voters.

The answer: Obama.

Here are the polls coming in late tonight.

Obama vs. McCain

The CNN focus group
15% vs. 10%

A CNN poll of viewers (40% Democrats, 30% Republicans)
58% vs. 31%

CNN Independents
57% to 31%

MediaCurves.com
Republicans:
18% vs. 70%, 12% undecided
Democratss:
81% vs. 10%, 9% undecided
Independents:
60% vs. 30%, 10% undecided

Fox News unscientific poll
67% vs. 33%

AOL
47% vs. 48% , 5% say no one won.

NBC’s unscientific poll
84% vs. 13%.

What is LALATE’s take on these results?

Independents are heavily favoring Obama which is important.

Additionally, the poll results still show roughly 10% still undecided or unhappy with either candidate. With most polls in early October as reported here show Obama’s lead in the single digits, a 10% undecided vote still could leave this race up in the air with 21 days to go.

After three presidential debates, and one vice presidential debate, the highest watched debate on LALATE was the vice presidential followed by the second presidential debate. Now with the debates over, stay with LALATE as it delivers poll results and countdown to election day with live coverage, video, analysis, and exit results.

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Tonight’s third Presidential debate brought up Sarah Palin and autism. John McCain says Sarah Palin should know about autism. Trig Palin does not have autism. Trig Palin has down syndrome.

McCain said tonight of Sarah Palin and autism.:

“Let’s reform it. Let’s reform it and fund it. That was, of course, out-of-bounds by the Democrats. We need to reform these programs. We need to have transparency. We need to have rewards. It’s a system that cries out for accountability and transparency and the adequate funding.

McCain continues:

“And I just said to you earlier, town hall meeting after town hall meeting, parents come with kids, children — precious children who have autism. Sarah Palin knows about that better than most. And we’ll find and we’ll spend the money, research, to find the cause of autism. And we’ll care for these young children. And all Americans will open their wallets and their hearts to do so.”

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VIDEO! Watch the video of tonight’s Presidential debate on Joe Wurzelbacher the Plumber. Joe the Ohio Plumber was center stage in the discussion of third and final debate tonight.

McCain said tonight on Joe the Plumber:

“Of course, I’ve talked to people like Joe the plumber and tell him that I’m not going to spread his wealth around. I’m going to let him keep his wealth. And of course, we’re talking about positive plan of action to restore this economy and restore jobs in America. That’s what my campaign is all about and that’s what it’ll continue to be all about.”

McCain continues:

“Joe, I want to tell you, I’ll not only help you buy that business that you worked your whole life for and I’ll keep your taxes low and I’ll provide available and affordable health care for you and your employees. And I will not stand for a tax increase on small business income.”

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Here is a repeat of that John McCain’s slamming of Barack Obama over the Congressman John Lewis remarks. Barack Obama refused to respond to the Congressman John Lewis attack during the debate after raised by McCain tonight.

When moderator Bob Schieffer gave Obama the opportunity to respond to McCain’s anger over the negative remarks by Congressman John Lewis, Obama didn’t respond but said McCain is guilty of negative campaigning too.

Obama’s response: “And 100 percent, John, of your ads — 100 percent of them have been negative.”

McCain said the following tonight:

“One of them happened just the other day, when a man I admire and respect — I’ve written about him — Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with the worst chapter in American history, segregation, deaths of children in church bombings, George Wallace. That, to me, was so hurtful.”

McCain said during the debates that every time someone in his camp made “an out-of-bounds remark”, they repudiated. McCain demanded Obama to repudiate this comment. “I hope that Sen. Obama will repudiate those remarks that were made by Congressman John Lewis, very unfair and totally inappropriate.”

Obama did not, saying McCain runs more negative campaigns than him. McCain said the reverse.

“And it’s a matter of fact that Sen. Obama has spent more money on negative ads than any political campaign in history. And I can prove it.”

What do you think?

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Watch a LIVE stream online here right now at LALATE NEWS of the Third Presidential Debate! Watch online the third and final Obama McCain debate at Hofstra University. This time the debate uses a roundtable format, with Barack Obama and John McCain just inches from each other.

Your debate moderator this time is CBS’ Face the Nation Bob Schieffer. Bob has already said that unlike previous debates this fall he will not allow the candidates to go off and default to stock answers that are non responsive to his questions. In fact, he says he has no reservations about jumping in and telling them to answer his question.

Following the debate, stay with LALATE NEWS for recap videos, transcripts, voter reactions, polls, and more.

Below is the LIVE STREAM.

At the bottom of the video screen on the left are two small white buttons (above th red button). Only the right button one is clickable. It reads (but is hard to see) “FULL SCREEN”. Click that “Full Screen” button and the video will instantly enlarge your computer’s full screen. Flash is required.

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