Both CNN and Fox had "punch in" polling. Here were the numbers about midnight:
:                         CNN             FoxNews        TOTALS
McCain                30317             73800           104117
Obama                73250             15300             88550
These results show a few things:
1) for the total of all Democrats and Republicans and Independents, more voted for McCain where the vote ratio was 44% for Obama, but 56% percent for McCain.
2) CNN has a viewership that is mostly Democrats, that is a ratio of 3:1 over Republicans, yet Obama only got 7:3 ratio which, when a common denominator is used, yields 7:3 ratio out of 9:3 proving that many Democrats switched sides, at least when looking at debate performance. (A tie ratio would have been 9:3, but Obama only got 7:3).
3) FoxNews viewship is mostly Republicans, and that ratio is about 7:5 over Democrats according to recent viewer's survey. In this case McCain got a ratio of 3:1 and when the common denominator is changed for comparison we see that with a viewership of 7:5 McCain got a vote of confidence of 15:5 which exceeds a tie of 7:5 by 2 to 1
4) There was of course some independent voters in the mix, so the ratios are not perfect, but still close
5) Finally, the FoxNews poll also shows a much larger percentage of Democrats watch FoxNews than the percentage of Republicans that watch CNN.  Could it be that FoxNews presents both sides more fairly that CNN?
Ans: I watched the interviews after the debate and very strong arguments were allowed to be made by spokespersons from both McCain and Obama camps on FoxNews. I have watched CNN on occasion in the past, just to compare, and sure enough, CNN lets a Republicn who is a "numb nuts" speak on behalf of McCain/Palin, but picks the brightest Democrat to speak for Obama/Biden.
7) I believe it was 6 times Obama had to say something like, "Sen McCain is absolutely right", while McCain only agreed with Obama ever so slightly on a few key points (like doing something about the financial crisis). It seems McCain articulated much better, which was not just debating skills alone, but he has more knowledge in the background of all issues.
8) This simple survey shows that all the MSM commentators are clearly in the Obama camp, because they all said Obama won the debates, but the combined Democrat-Republican survey I just did proves them to be biased at bias can get.
9) I watched a discussion afterwards, where Juan Williams could NOT look anyone in the face when he said Obama won the debate and also while explaining why, showing Mr Williams, in truth, did not believe what he was saying. He finally did look the moderator in the face for those things that were simple statements of fact, however, proving he was embarassed when he lacked confidence in his support of Obama, but OK when what he said was just a statement of fact. All the other commentators looked the moderator in the face, because they all provided more balanced comments that were fairly truthful, including those comments favoring Obama. No one looked down or away when providing favorable comments for McCain.