Early CBS Poll Results Suggest More Uncommitted Voters Saw Obama As Debate Winner

[Hope And Change]

10:14 CDT: (Nate) OK, http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/26/politics/horserace/entry4482028.shtml">here's that link to that CBS news poll. And it wasn't 500 independents -- it was 500 uncommitted voters. I would say, just from my own point of view, that Obama didn't win by anything like a 2:1 margin, but that's partly because I was so pleased with his first 45 minuets that he raised my expectations for the last 45, when McCain seemed almost literally to wake up.


http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/09/presidential-debate-post-mortem-live.html

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September 26, 2008, 11:02 PM

Early Poll Results Suggest More Uncommitted Voters Saw Obama As Debate Winner

Posted by Brian Montopoli| 3

CBS News and Knowledge Networks conducted a nationally representative poll of approximately 500 uncommitted voters reacting to the debate in the minutes after it happened.

These figures are still preliminary and could change as more respondents complete the survey. But here's what we have so far:

Forty percent of uncommitted voters who watched the debate tonight thought Barack Obama was the winner. Twenty-two percent thought John McCain won. Thirty-eight percent saw it as a draw.

Forty-six percent of uncommitted voters said their opinion of Obama got better tonight.

Sixty-eight percent of uncommitted voters think Obama would make the right decisions about the economy. Forty-one percent think McCain would.

Forty-nine percent of these voters think Obama would make the right decisions about Iraq. Fifty-five percent think McCain would.

We will have a full report on the poll later on. Uncommitted voters are those who don't yet know who they will vote for, or who have chosen a candidate but may still change their minds.


http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/26/politics/horserace/entry4482028.shtml

[Doityourself]

1. yessssssssss

[Curtland1015]

2. Nice.

[krawhitham]

3. Kick

[Kdillard]

4. Excellent news all around. I believe Obama will get a bump from this.

McCain really turned off indies from all accounts.

[krawhitham]

5. Site not working

[LooseWilly]

19. It's back up now...

And it's nice to see that the talking heads praise of repetitive idiocy is not in line with independents' ratings...

[Grateful for Hope]

6. So good to hear!

Thanks for posting this!

[4_Legs_Good]

7. Nice!!!

w00t!

[TexasObserver]

8. that's what the lines on CNN suggested was the case

I thought those were useful.

[five_horizons]

9. Awesome news!

For the first time, I feel really, really confident that we are going to win this thing.

[five_horizons]

10. sorry

friggin' double post

[mvd]

11. K&R

I noticed Obama did well with indies on the running debate graph.

[Kaleko]

12. Heh

[OhioChick]

13. Great!

:kick:

[vaberella]

14. H&C---why do all your posts inspire H&C within me?! You're great. Thanks!!

I'm glad this is working out. He needed the independents and he got them.

[Hope And Change]

16. I edited my post verbarella.Sorry, but still great news!

[Colobo]

15. Beautiful

[cyr330]

17. We all know that Obama won...

But even if others perceive it as a tie, it's still good for us, as McShit needed to hit it out of the park to break his bad slump in the polls, and his performance tonight certainly did NOT measure up!

[Hope And Change]

18. Kick!

[crazy_vanilla]

20. excellent n/t

[Hope And Change]

21. Kick!