Democratic Voters Overwhelmingly Think Clinton Won Debate; Particularly Strong on National Security

[George II]

Source: Public Policy Polling

A Public Policy Polling survey of Democratic primary voters nationally who watched tonight’s debate finds that it reinforced Hillary Clinton’s front runner status. Viewers overwhelmingly think she won the debate, and particularly trust her over the rest of the Democratic field when it comes to issues of national security.

Key findings from the survey include:

-67% of voters think Clinton won the debate, to 20% for Bernie Sanders and 7% for Martin O’Malley. On a related note 63% of viewers said the debate gave them a more positive opinion of Clinton, compared to 41% who said it gave them a more positive opinion of Sanders, and 37% who said it gave them a more positive opinion of O’Malley.

-Clinton is by a wide margin the candidate debate watchers trust the most on national security issues. 75% say they have the most faith in Clinton on that front, compared to only 17% for Sanders, and 5% for O’Malley. National security issues were a primary focus tonight in the aftermath of yesterday’s tragedy in France, and Democratic voters by far and away trust Clinton the most on that issue.

-What’s particularly striking is how universal the sentiment that Clinton won the debate tonight is among all the different groups within the Democratic Party. 86% of African Americans, 73% of women, 70% of moderates, 69% of seniors, 67% of Hispanics, 65% of liberals, 61% of white voters, 58% of men, and 50% of younger voters all think that Clinton was the winner of tonight’s debate.

Read more: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2015/11/democratic-voters-overwhelmingly-think-clinton-won-debate-particularly-strong-on-national-security-i.html

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No surprise here!

[RandySF]

1. k&r

[iamthebandfanman]

2. lol n.t

[yeoman6987]

3. Obviously they saw the same debate I did

Some here might not have watched and are hoping their candidate did well. Hillary was far presidential by a mile at least.

[Jack Rabbit]

5. You must have watched a different debate than I did

[yeoman6987]

7. No. She was so well versed in foreign policy, economy, guns, and everything else

Bernie wants to give us things which is nice and O'Malley clearly is not ready.

[George II]

11. Sanders seemed like a cranky old man who was late for his nap........

.........(I'm a cranky old man too, for the lurking alerters)

[2pooped2pop]

12. preordained results for the preordained

Canidate. We all knew that the results we are told will always be Hillary.

[riversedge]

6. I think Democrats (in general) are ready for Madam President--now what do we

do with Bill?? I actually liked the First Dude but then someone reminded me that it was Palin's Hubby suggestion. uga uga.

[yeoman6987]

8. No. He earned president. Keep it. Many families have two doctors in the family

And are able to figure out which one is which.

[Laser102]

63. How about Madam Presidents consort, President Bill Clinton. What do you think?

[riversedge]

4. "Clinton won the debate tonight is among all the different groups within the Democratic Party."

That's our gal. This really is impressive.


CONGRATS TO HILLARY AND HER TEAM


-What’s particularly striking is how universal the sentiment that Clinton won the debate tonight is among all the different groups within the Democratic Party. 86% of African Americans, 73% of women, 70% of moderates, 69% of seniors, 67% of Hispanics, 65% of liberals, 61% of white voters, 58% of men, and 50% of younger voters all think that Clinton was the winner of tonight’s debate.

[NanceGreggs]

9. K&R!!!!!!!!

[ram2008]

10. Polling was done with Correct the Record-- her SuperPAC

Not the most unbiased source.

[George II]

14. Polling was done by PPP.

[jeff47]

15. Read the report.

This research was conducted on behalf of Correct The Record.

[George II]

17. ON BEHALF, not sponsored by!

[jeff47]

19. :facepalm:

Yes, they're regularly going to mention random SuperPACs who are not at all connected with a poll!

[George II]

22. Yawn....Sanders came off as highly UN-Presidential.

[jeff47]

25. Now now George, we were talking about this poll.

So odd of you to change the subject if there was nothing odd about the poll.

Like not publishing the prescreening questions.
Or their likely voter model.
Or not rotating the candidate's names in the questions
Or the minor detail that it's a landline poll.
And that it was paid for by a Clinton SuperPAC.

Nope, nothing to see here. Time to move on to the optics.

[George II]

27. Oh Jeff, are you tonight's designated hitter?

[jeff47]

28. No, I just have this terrible bias towards reality. Sorry. (nt)

[George II]

54. Was Sanders (as well as the other candidates) not one of the subjects of the poll?

Where did they publish the questions? What was "their likely voter model"?

"PPP interviewed 510 Democratic primary voters nationally by telephone after the debate who had been pre-screened on Thursday and Friday as planning to watch the debate and willing to give their opinions about it afterward."

Of course they "prescreened" the people polled. Generally when a polling company conducts a poll about an event (i.e., the debate) they want to contact people who are planning to watch the debate. It would be pointless to contact people who didn't watch the debate, so they "prescreened" people to determine respondents who would be able to rationally comment on the debate.

You're belying your earlier contention that you're biased toward reality.

[jeff47]

56. So decided to come back in the morning and try again?

Where did they publish the questions?

The link to the actual report is at the end of the press release you quoted in the OP. You should consider reading your own sources sometimes.

Of course they "prescreened" the people polled.

And the point you're missing is they did not publish specifically how they prescreened them. If the questions were just "Are you going to watch the debate?" and "can we call you after it?", then what would be the harm in publishing those results? Don't you think finding out how many said "I'm not going to watch it" would have been nice to know?

You know what's also missing from the prescreeing? How they got their sample. You'll find when you bother to read the actual report that it does not include anything about getting a random sample. Which means it wasn't a random sample.

You're belying your earlier contention that you're biased toward reality.

When you don't bother reading your own sources, how do you know what reality is?

[George II]

58. Sorry, I don't "live" on DU. All you're now doing is impugning the integrity of one of the most....

.....respected pollsters around and suggesting how they should have conducted their poll?

Have it your way, that won't change the result of the poll or how most people felt. Enjoy!

[jeff47]

69. Again, read your own sources. I am not saying anything that PPP does not say themselves.

But we both know you won't be doing that.

[Scootaloo]

32. Whatever that means.

[madokie]

67. Hillary will never be elected President of these united states of America

and that you can take to the bank

Americans are sick and tired of the same old same old and that is exactly what will be with a Billary win

[mpcamb]

71. So the head line should read: "Specially selected Democrats overwhelming think..."

[Jack Rabbit]

18. Preordained results for the preordained, perhaps?

[Paulie]

13. Sponsored by Correct the Record.

Using pre screened participants. No mention of the screening questions.

Surprise surprise.

PPP interviewed 510 Democratic primary voters nationally by telephone after the debate who had been pre-screened on Thursday and Friday as planning to watch the debate and willing to give their opinions about it afterward. The survey’s margin of error is +/-4.3%. This research was conducted on behalf of Correct The Record.
Phone: [phone]
Web: www.publicpolicypolling.com
Email: [e-mail]

[arcane1]

33. Don't hold your breath awaiting a reply

You're messing up the script.

[haydukelives]

16. of course they did.

until the real polls come out tomorrow.

[relayerbob]

20. Most people are likely to think

their preferred candidate won. There were no clear knockouts.

[madfloridian]

21. Then there's this one.

http://time.com/4110860/democratic-debate-poll-who-won/

[George II]

23. Another "online poll"? How many republicans and teenagers with a smart phone voted?

[jeff47]

30. Well, the poll you're touting in the OP has zero teenagers with a smartphone. (nt)

[pnwmom]

47. Under 18's don't vote. And how do you know the telephone poll

didn't include cell phones? Most telephone polls do these days.

[jeff47]

57. Because I read their report. Tricky, huh? (nt)

[pnwmom]

65. I did, too. Where in the report does it say that their telephone calls

were limited to landline calls?

[jeff47]

68. Cell phones are explicitly mentioned out when they are called. In addition, they'd provide

a percentage of cell phone versus landline.

At least, that's what's done in all of PPP's other polls.

[relayerbob]

26. These aren't polls and being swarmed by online partcipants hardly makes it accurate

[madfloridian]

31. Just as indicative or more so than phoning only likely voters...

which means they have voted before.. Many Bernie supporters have not been previous Democratic voters.

But then again he's building a support system which is not being covered by media.

[pnwmom]

48. They use other factors besides whether you've voted before. They know

that young people haven't been able to vote in the past.

[Plucketeer]

39. So.............

IF these on-line polls are not valid and Bernie keeps coming out on top, how come folks don't flood them for your preordained "Champion"??? She's got no one who cares enough to make a showing?

I'm glad I'm with Sanders. I think you delusionals are setting yourselves up for a really ugly surprise. Hill stank tonight. Cracks were starting to show in her facade of composure. I can't WAIT for the caucuses!

[bl968]

24. Bullshit

What the hell are they smoking

[jeff47]

29. They're smoking Clinton SuperPAC money.

The poll was paid for by Correct the Record.

[EndElectoral]

34. Nothing like having your SuperPAC ready with your own polling results...

Saying something is so doesn't make it so...in this case, far from it.

[tishaLA]

35. I thought they were all excellent at different moments

but in terms of national security, her response about Jordan taking so many refugees and her answer about OBL's killing were pretty untouchable.

Sanders and MO'M were better on things like minimum wage and health care. IMO none of them distinguished him or herself on the question about race. Sorry.

[SunSeeker]

36. Yep. Easy call.

Good grief, they asked Sanders what crisis he survived that will help him as president. All he could come up with was having to compromise with the GOP on a veterans bill. Hillary nailed it with the Bin Laden example.

And on healthcare, I had no idea Sander's idea of single payer involved giving power to the states. Holy shit. Now for sure people will not want their taxes raised 10% to pay for that.

Hillary hit it out of the park on guns, pointing out Bernie's refusal to admit he made a mistake on manufacturer immunity.

[Plucketeer]

40. Oh yeah!

And think of the MILLIONS that are gonna be ecstatic about her lesser minimum wage. Yeah - she won GOBS of devotees (or is it DE-votees?) on that gem of logic. Wonder how much the folks serving food at her $33K-a-plate dinner are getting paid!

[pnwmom]

49. And his making a joke about 90% tax rates didn't help him much either.

I also didn't know that his plan was to let each state handle their own healthcare. That wouldn't end well.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

37. Hillary is #1 with a dial tone.

[fbc]

38. Hillary won the poll she paid for?

Money well spent I guess...

[Tarheel_Dem]

41. The reactions here are priceless, and once again prove that DU bears absolutely no resemblance..

to the real world. It's hilarious to watch the people who were calling for "more debates" are now pissed that their candidate isn't winning them. That's gotta suck!

Go Madam President!

[leftynyc]

66. The way we all

Howled with derision when the republicans discounted the polls in 2012. And here they are doing the same thing along with pushing unscientific online polls. I would think they would be embarrassed but apparently not.

[Tarheel_Dem]

70. I actually don't think it's Democrats who are pushing the "online polls", I think that has much....

more to do with BS' libertarian following. Afterall, "Libertarians are just Republicans who want to smoke dope & get laid", but seem to be attracted to BS for some inexplicable reason.

[litlbilly]

42. If I was in a debate and had my own superpac polling, i bet i could win too:) too funny

[okasha]

43. Sanders has his own hired pollster now.

Oddly, we haven't seen any numbers he's produced. Gotta wonder why Bernie's campaign is keeping those results to themselves.

[c588415]

44. Hillary Clinton is the chosen one, and of course she won.

[jfern]

45. It was paid for by the SuperPAC that coordinates with her campaign

Total garbage

[EndElectoral]

59. Do you think the Clinton posters really care about that?

[Wibly]

50. Hmm, not sure about that

I thot Hilary was stronger than last time, but I wouldn't say she won. Seemed more like a draw between her and Sanders. I think O'M won some support too.
Too many talking points and platitudes.
If the GOP D is a shite slinging charade, the Dem's is a platitude parade.

[etherealtruth]

51. Public Policy Polling

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Policy_Polling

Public Policy Polling (PPP) is a U.S. polling firm based in Raleigh, North Carolina.[1] PPP was founded in 2001 by businessman Dean Debnam, the firm's current president and chief executive officer.[2]
PPP is described as one of the "most accurate" polling companies[3][4] and also as a "Democratic-leaning"[5] polling company because it polls only for Democratic and progressive campaigns and organizations on a private basis.

[NonMetro]

52. The "debates" are a spectator sport where everyone cheers for their team. nt

[tabasco]

53. Call off the election --- it's another poll.

[Gothmog]

55. These are strong polling numbers

PPP is a real polling operation compared to the internet poils

[madfloridian]

60. 81% over age 46.

Only 19% age 18 to 45.

[George II]

61. And? Are you familiar with the age distribution of Democratic voters in recent national elections?

[chapdrum]

62. All that this means is that

the sleepwalkers will likely prevail.

HRC petulant over impugned integrity, AND favorably invoking GW Bush?

Give me a break.

[cheapdate]

64. I like Bernie Sanders and plan to vote for him in the primary regardless of any polls.

But I can't deny the evidence provided by established and respected public opinion research organizations like PPP. Sure, they could be off -- but not by 30 points. Hillary Clinton is very popular among the general population of Democratic voters. Here in both my local and state (Tennessee) Democratic Party organizations, Hillary is very popular.

Bernie Sanders remains a long-shot. Hillary Clinton is the clear favorite to win the nomination. I see very little reason at this point to expect that to change, or to expect that Bernie Sanders will emerge from Super Tuesday with any serious chance to upset Clinton.

My political views have never been mainstream. I'm an anarchist at heart, and a Democrat in the real world. I'll support the party's nominee whoever it is.