Recovering from his tired showing in his first head-to-head matchup with Mitt Romney, President Obama showed a lot more fight last night in a town-hall-style debate in Hempstead, N.Y. People who watched the debate on Xbox Live agreed, with 51 percent of undecided gamers saying the president had the better night.

Romney, meanwhile, came off like a bit of a noob. Only 17 percent said the Republican nominee provided the better answers to questions offered by undecided voters inside the auditorium at Hofstra University.

More than 100,000 users participated in Xbox’s realtime polling of the debate, according to a Microsoft press release. Xbox and its polling partner, YouGov, also tracked the responses of 2,000 undecided or swing voters. Of that group, 28 percent said they leaned toward or strongly supported Obama after the debate, while 10 percent saying the same for Romney.

And Obama impressed more Romney-leaning voters than Romney won over tentative Obama backers. Nineteen percent of voters who leaned toward Romney at the debate’s start felt the president won. Only two percent of Obama leaners felt the former Massachusetts governor beat the president.

While a large swath of Xbox’s undecided sample remained that way after the debate—32 percent still submitted no preference after 90 minutes of the candidates’ back-and-forth—a clear majority said they felt Obama’s statements were more truthful than Romney. Fifty-two percent said the president was more truthful in a debate that tackled issues like taxation, equal pay and women’s health. Moreover, 56 percent said Obama’s answers and policy proposals were specific enough, only 17 percent said as much for Romney.

Microsoft jumped into presidential analytics this year by adding an “Election 2012” channel to its Xbox Live entertainment service, including live broadcasts of all four presidential and vice-presidential debates.

While its polling experts are tracking a subsample of undecided voters, the product is attracting a considerable number of participants. Last night, more than 100,000 gamers elected to watch the debate on their Xboxes rather than a major broadcast network or cable news channel. And during the debate, Xbox took its users pulses on about 70 questions, collecting over 2 million answers, Microsoft said in a news release.