would the vp and the presedential debate have an effect on peoples opinions in todays election

For the Presidential Debate, I personally thought that McCain did a better job than Obama. I felt as though McCain's answers were more thorough and connected with the people more, while Obama seemed to be having a bit more trouble. Then again, I'm sure there are people who will say it the other way around.Another thing was that Obama would often look at McCain while answering questions, while McCain focused more on the people and the moderator. I actually thought that this was a good thing for McCain to do because it's not Obama that he wants to win over, he wants to win over the people, hence him putting all his energy towards them. As far as the Vice Presidential Debate, both Palin and Biden would dodge off answers and go off topic for a lot of questions. The moderator several times had to say to both of them "you didn't answer the question, would you like to answer it?" ... now my question is how much will these debates play a role in peoples voting , would it even have any effect ?!! since its been a while for the debates ..
Either way, I'm not happy with this election, but that put aside, I'm sure ANYONE who wins will do a better job to get us out of this economic crisis among other things that Bush has gotten us into.