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Barack_America

(28,876 posts)
Thu Oct 4, 2012, 09:36 PM Oct 2012

Has anyone seen polls of last night's debate broken down by gender?

I keep hearing stories of women being particularly unimpressed by Mitt's rude behavior last night. I was wondering if anyone had seen a poll that looked into opinion of debate performance based on gender.

Google isn't bringing anything up for me.

Thanks.

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pennylane100

(3,425 posts)
1. I hope most women were as outraged as I was by his lies.
Thu Oct 4, 2012, 09:39 PM
Oct 2012

I could not believe how he could fit so many into such a short time. I would love to know how many have been verified.

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
2. There will probably be polls coming out tomorrow and/or the next day.
Thu Oct 4, 2012, 09:53 PM
Oct 2012

It's still too early.

That quick poll that CNN did was really screwed up. I heard they only polled folks in the Southern states and the majority were over 60 years old or something like that.

The good polls will take a day or two to do before they are released.

Barack_America

(28,876 posts)
3. That CNN poll was horrible. Infuriating.
Thu Oct 4, 2012, 09:59 PM
Oct 2012

This is horribly simplistic and crude, but from what I've seen thus far there is some suggestion that males responded to Mitt's aggression and women disliked it. I'd be curious to see if real numbers support this theory.

patrice

(47,992 posts)
5. The sample size was too small too, less than half of the usual, so any of the intrinsic variations
Thu Oct 4, 2012, 10:42 PM
Oct 2012

in subsets of the responses (think here of how, when you read a polling question the responses you are offered as choices are usually an over-simplification of your actual thinking about the question, so the response you give is not a completely valid description of your attitude toward the subject) would have unacceptably large margins of error in how well they represent the attitudes of the larger populations that they are supposed to represent.

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