Polls: Kerry won debate

[leftchick]

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Newsweek's post-debate poll showed 61 percent of respondents said Kerry won, 19 percent said Bush won and 16 percent said they were undecided.

The poll also found 56 percent said Kerry did better than expected in the debate while 11 percent said the same for Bush.

In the Los Angeles Times poll, 54 percent of 725 respondents surveyed declared Kerry the winner of the debate, compared with 15 percent who said Bush won.

Before the debate, a Los Angeles Times poll showed Kerry with a one percentage point lead over Bush, and after the debate Kerry's lead increased to two points. Those margins are well within the poll's margin of error -- plus or minus four percentage points.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/03/election.poll/

[w4rma]

1. Kerry was in the lead before the debate? How come CNN never mentioned

that BEFORE the debate, intstead of touting their false Gallop polls with the 15 point lead?

Ahh, I see. History has changed now, since Kerry jumped to the lead due to the widely watched debate.

[MADem]

2. It's called managing the news

...and the lame stream media took orders from the propaganda minister up to now. But those lame clowns are like sharks, not big on thought, but long on instinct. They smell blood in the water, so they attack.

[Chiyo-chichi]

3. Fox News Sunday

reported that Kerry did so well in online polls because the DNC sent out an e-mail urging supporters to vote online. Damn straight! I was at it for hours like most of you. We need to get the work out that the Bush-Cheney campaign did the same thing. Email Fox News Sunday. Anyone have a copy of or link to the RNC/Bush-Cheney email that was posted somewhere on DU?

[wysiwyg]

5. Newsweek wasn't reporting an online poll

The Newsweek survey polled more than 1,000 registered voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus four percentage points.

Newsweek's poll wasn't an online poll so voting online wasn't relevent anyway. More Fox spin ala "Don't listen to anyone else, they all lie".

[4_Legs_Good]

4. Fantastic numbers!!!

Woo hooo!

If Edwards cleans Cheney's clock tuesday we're gonna be looking really good. I bet we get twice the audience for a VP debate as usual.

Keep up the good work!

david

[JoFerret]

6. Look at George P. Bush's spin on his uncle W

"I don't want to say somebody is the winner or somebody is the loser tonight," said George P. Bush, the president's nephew, and he went on to set a fairly low bar for his uncle. "I think his main objective, apart from not falling on the ground on the stage, which he didn't do tonight, was to say, look, here are my positions, and talk directly to the voters."

Talk about low expectations!!
It's from today's NYTimes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/03/politics/campaign/03points.html

[LiberalFighter]

7. 11% thought gw* did better than expected???

What the hell?

[NYC Liberal]

8. Well....

He said "vociferously"

[R Hickey]

10. Although Dubya pronunced the word correctly, he used it wrong.

"Vociferously" implies that the insurgents are in a shouting match. I think Dubya was trying to discribe the RPG's and roadside bombs, not the increased level of shouted insults from Iraq's people.

[Goldmund]

9. Count me among those

Of course Kerry obliterated him, but I thought that he did better than he usually does.