Check out this quote

"The debate was not the bad night that some had feared, but neither was it a turning point for the McCain camp."

This is from the New York Times and it was released about two hours after the Vice President debate had ended.

Similar statement: "Sharpsburg was not the bad loss that some (like Lincoln) had feared, but neither was it the turning point for the North."

After 140 years we can make this sort of decisive statement about the Civil War. Isn't it nice to have a media so prescient and clear-sighted that they can make these pronouncement mere hours after the events have occurred?