Oct 08 2008
Who Won the Debate? “That One”!
The second Presidential “debate” was held on last night in Tennessee. It was a semi-town hall format, but in actuality, it was neither a debate nor a town hall. Follow-up questions were supposedly allowed, but the candidates, particularly Senator Barack Obama, had little time for back-and-forth interaction.
This election cycle, there is something called “snap polls”, in which actual people are polled immediately for their reactions. Some of the polls appear below. Despite four days of personal attacks and dubious associations launched by the McCain/Palin campaign, the people are voicing who their choice is this year.
Who expressed his views more clearly in the debate?
Obama 60
McCain 30
Who spent more time attacking his opponent?
Obama 17
McCain 63
Who seemed to be the stronger leader?
Obama 54
McCain 43
Who was most likeable?
Obama 65
McCain 28
No good news for McCain.
Who won?
McCain (R) 27
Obama (D) 39
Draw 35
Will Obama will make the right decisions on the economy?
Before debate: 54
After debate: 68
Will McCain will make the right decisions on the economy?
Before debate: 41
After debate: 49
Victory looks like this.
Update: To emphasize: less than half of undecided voters think McCain will do the right thing on the economy, over 2/3rds think Obama will.
After Senator John McCain could not even look at Senator Obama at the first debate, everyone was holding their collective breath to see how he would act this time. The most memorable line of this debate was when John McCain tried again to be dismissive of Barack Obama, not referring to him by name, but as “That One”. Obama supporters immediately latched onto that phrase…and turned it into a positive.
The American people are speaking up, telling the world who we want:
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Am I going crazy, or was this cross-posted on DKos?
Either way, excellent post. If you ever feel like a chuckle, swing on by…
www.therelevantrhino.today.com
Cheers
Oh, forgot, I added you to my blogroll, hopefully some of my readers start dropping by if they already don’t.
Thank you! Actually, I got some of this from Kos, some from Jed (jedreport.com), and some from Nate @ fivethirtyeight.com.
Thanks for the shout-out in your blogroll; I am putting you on the blogroll for both of my blogs.
I’m seeing him today w00t!