NEW YORK, NY October 16, 2008 —New Yorkers from across region are playing the role of pundit, assessing the performance of both presidential candidates in last night's third and final debate.

A group of veterans watched the debate at a midtown saloon. Mike Brophy is a Naval Academy graduate and John McCain supporter. He says his candidate came through on what he described as traditional Republican values.

BROPHY: He was able to kind of I think get across some of the key points of what he thinks about taxes, what he thinks about torture - some of the views that I think are really commendable about the stances he's always had.

But Hofstra University senior Jesus Gonzalez took a different view.

GONZALEZ: McCain looked like he was just ready to pop out of his seat and scream at Obama at one point and he didn't seem collected.

Gonzalez felt Obama won the debate and showed he'll have a cooler head in a crisis like the nation's financial meltdown.