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

[blonndee]

September 26, 2008, 11:02 PM
Early Poll Results Suggest More Uncommitted Voters Saw Obama As Debate Winner
Posted by Brian Montopoli

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

[RoyGBiv]

1. Fascinating ...

Uncommitted voters break heavily for Obama.

At the same time, apparently half of DU is in near meltdown.

I don't recognize this place sometimes.

[blonndee]

3. I don't either!

I am REALLY happy with how the debate went. Not so happy with some of the idiot pundits on MSNBC earlier, but it looks like most of the post-debate spin has been pretty good, or at least not TOO bad.

[Omnibus]

5. We secretly hoped for a blowout...

...or for some of us, not so secretly.

Also, Obama only pointed out about 1/3 of McCain's lies. To be fair, he didn't have the time to catch them all.

[RoyGBiv]

8. Pundits doing what they always doing ...

Playing it close to the chest. Now the instant opinion polls are coming out, and they are showing that the people who matter -- that would be us, the people who vote -- saw it differently.

Interestingly, several heavily conservative pundits are expressing disappointment in McCain, which says a lot.

Good to see you, blondee. Boomer! :hi:

[blonndee]

11. Sooner!

How bout them Sooners, anyway? :) :hi:

[RoyGBiv]

12. They make me look forward to Saturdays!

I'm living in enemy territory now.

Which is fun.

When the Sooners are winning. :-)

[speedoo]

2. And a lot of those opinions are based on the relative demeanor. nt

[Omnibus]

4. Olbermann just talked about this...

He mentioned it was Obama 40%, McCain 22%, 38% thought it was a draw.

Then he snarked, "wait, that should be in second place... Obama 40%, draw 38%, McCain 22%"

I love Olbermann.

[appleannie1]

10. He does not miss a thing. IE: McCain admitted tonight we have been torturing people.

Then played the sound bite that most people missed and went on to say "We could not do it AGAIN, if we had not done it in the past"

[csziggy]

6. Here is a Fox Poll that shows that Independents thought Obama did better on every point

http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=7526027&version=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1

ISSUE: FINANCIAL RECOVERY PLAN
Barack Obama John McCain
Republican 26.57% 73.43%
Democrat 87.16% 12.84%
Independent 60.85% 39.15%

ISSUE: ECONOMIC PLANS
Barack Obama John McCain
Republican 18.28% 81.72%
Democrat 79.87% 20.13%
Independent 55.95% 44.05%

ISSUE: GOVERNMENT SPENDING
Barack Obama John McCain
Republican 16.67% 83.33%
Democrat 79% 21%
Independent 53.39% 46.61%

ISSUE: U.S. RELATIONSHIP WITH RUSSIA
Barack Obama John McCain
Republican 19.15% 80.85%
Democrat 80.21% 19.79%
Independent 66.67% 33.33%

ISSUE: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE IRAQ WAR
Barack Obama John McCain
Republican 17.17% 82.83%
Democrat 81.91% 18.09%
Independent 59.52% 40.48%

ISSUE: SENDING MORE U.S. TROOPS TO AFGHANISTAN
Barack Obama John McCain
Republican 22% 78%
Democrat 81.63% 18.37%
Independent 56.86% 43.14%

ISSUE: THREAT OF IRAN
Barack Obama John McCain
Republican 15% 85%
Democrat 84.48% 15.52%
Independent 61.82% 38.18%

ISSUE: LIKELIHOOD OF ANOTHER 9/11 ATTACK
Barack Obama John McCain
Republican 13.16% 86.84%
Democrat 84.52% 15.48%
Independent 56.82% 43.18%

ISSUE: WHO WON THE DEBATE
Barack Obama John McCain
Republican 10.26% 89.74%
Democrat 92.77% 7.23%
Independent 61.11% 38.89%

[blonndee]

13. Looking GREAT among Indies. Thanks for this!

That's what we need. Obama has the Dems and now he needs the indies. This is great news for tonight.

[Doityourself]

7. I feel like a million bucks...

[lonestarnot]

9. Barack simply kicked ass!

I can't wait to say Mr. President again!