CBC's U.S. political panel talks about how Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is apparently seen by more voters as having a winning personal style after the first televised debate with President Barack Obama.

Romney is seen as the decisive winner of Wednesday's debate in Denver.

Paul Brandus, with the West Wing Report, says he still thinks that if the election were held today, Obama would still win.

"But I say that with less certainty than I would have just a week ago," he said.

Luiza Savage of Maclean's magazine says Romney is now gaining in public opinion polls, both nationally and in swing states.

A new tracking poll conducted by Ipsos for the news agency Reuters suggests Romney is improving in the "candidate attribute" questions.

The poll released Saturday shows the largest gain for Romney — four percentage points — in the "eloquent" rating, up four percentage points from a Sept. 28 survey.

For Obama, 48 per cent of respondents saw him this way, up one percentage point.

Obama’s largest change is on "is a good person," up four points at 47 per cent. Romney’s score on this remains essentially unchanged at 31 per cent, down from 32 per cent.

Romney saw a three-point improvement on "presidential," from 34 per cent to 37 per cent. There were also three-point gains for "tough enough for the job," and "would be fun to meet in person."

However, Obama still retains a lead on all of these metrics and overall has a two-point lead over Romney, at 47 per cent, versus 45 per cent.

The pollster interviewed 1,770 American registered voters and 1,492 likely voters online from Oct. 2-6. Ipsos says the poll has a "credibility interval" of plus or minus 2.7 percentage points for registered voters and 2.9 for likely voters.