Results of MSNBC poll on best debate performance

[spooky3]

Who had the best performance in Thursday's South Carolina debate? * 6065 responses

Wesley Clark
22%
Howard Dean
18%
John Edwards
21%
John Kerry
22%
Dennis Kucinich
4%
Joe Lieberman
4%
Al Sharpton
9%

[spooky3]

1. looks like nearly a 4 way tie

[jenk]

4. Lieberman says "I'm tied for second, that's a mandate to go on!"

[Kathleen04]

5. haha

That was my first thought too!

[krkaufman]

6. I'm HOWLing.... thanks. n/t

[spooky3]

7. yes, I knew someone would come up with that hysterical

observation :-), but the reality is, statistically there is not much difference in the top 4, with that number of votes, especially given that this is a web poll.

[Bonobo]

2. Statistical tie. eom

[ThirdWheelLegend]

3. A theory proved! 6065 people CAN be wrong!

Who would have thunk it!

:)

TWL

[BeatleBoot]

8. Link? On-line, non-scientific poll???

Or do we take your word for it?

[spooky3]

9. It's at the MSNBC site (see my header?)

It's their on-line poll, nonscientific.

[DIBL]

10. Why do you care anyway

I think it's from an MSBNC online poll.

These polls are beyond meaningless. They're a measure of a candidate's support rather than a subjective assessment of performance. I am sure that almost every pariticipant in this poll voted for their own candidate. Otherwise, DK and AS would have come out on top.

[spooky3]

12. sort of like our DU polls :-)!

But please, have some respect for the opinions of other people. Not everyone thinks DK is as great a debater as you do, and some people think AS is long on style and short on substance.

[DoctorMyEyes]

16. I agree with you

Kucinich and Sharpton both kicked ass tonight and I hope they both stay in the race for as long as they can.


BTW - Welcome to DU!

[HuckleB]

11. I watched it with a group of friends at a barbeque.

Yeah, we barbeque in the rain. It's Oregon, so nothing stops us.

Anyway, there wasn't a Clark supporter in the group. Two newly minted Kerry guys, the wife and I as token Dean folk, one Edwards woman, and a group of Kucinich superfans.

Every last one of us thought Clark won the thing by a mile, and that Kerry and Edwards looked and sounded like crap.

That's why I find this poll bizarre. It doesn't make sense.

[windansea]

13. wow that's great...

glad to hear it...hope you had a tarp over the barby

[Jerseycoa]

15. That's some group

It could have been a battle royal if you were barbecuing here at DU. :D

[IndianaGreen]

21. Wes Clark is our ABK candidate

Clark can run circles around Kerry, and he has more medals!

[krkaufman]

17. Thanks for the sanity check

That's what I thought, too,
<=== but I'm biased.

Sounds like a great barbecue.

[sandnsea]

18. No Clark supporter??

And Clark won?? Sounds like a joint decision to go for Clark so nobody would be offended.

Clark did good, but nobody sounded like crap.

[TexasPatriot]

19. you know

clark was really good... its sort of like when you see a really good acting performance, you dont ever notice they're acting. Clark absolutely belonged on that stage. Imagine if he'd looked like he does now back in his first debate...

[rpf113]

14. Go Clark!

Go Clark!

[Eurobabe]

20. Let's go WES!

Clark was awesome tonight, despite the machinations of Tom Brokaw.

[Rhiannon12866]

22. This has got to be bogus

No matter what anyone thinks of his ideas, Al Sharpton is arguably the best in any debate that I have seen him participate in and the applause and ovations he receives from the audiences means that they agree with me. He is just an excellent speaker, and I cannot believe that anyone would say that he finished in last place.:shrug: