Edwards is well ahead in both the Daily Kos and MyDD quickie polls as of midnight, which means at most that liberal blog-readers liked his answers and style. But there won't be any 'scientific' polls asking a representative sample who won, and good debate performance is only one part of a successful campaign anyway.

It's pretty clear, however, that fairness did not win, according to a statistical analysis conducted by the Dodd campaign. Here's the time and question tally for the first half of the debate, as reported by Salon:

CLINTON 9:25, 9 questions

OBAMA 8:19, 9 questions

RICHARDSON 7:23, 6 questions

EDWARDS 7:06, 8 questions

BIDEN 4:45, 5 questions

DODD 4:00, 4 questions

GRAVEL 2:59, 5 questions

KUCINICH 2:28, 3 questions

Somehow, the remaining debates have to do a better job of letting all candidates get fair coverage.

UPDATE: The Dodd campaign's tally, presumably for the entire debate is now up. The tally provided for time only: Obama 16:00; Clinton 14:26; Edwards 11:42; Richardson 10:48; Kucinich 9:02; Dodd 8:28; Biden 7:48; Gravel 5:37.

Perfect equality of "face time" is impossible to achieve in any debate format. But a ten plus minute gap between the top time-user and the last-ranking participant is too much.