Republican Frank Luntz did a focus group last night on Obama's infomercial

[Ichingcarpenter]

On edit Luntz thought it played well with all voters.


He was on Faux this morning.

He is political consultant and pollster who you probably seen on Bill Maher's Real Time show
a bunch of times. Anyway he was using the 'dial' thing with a graph line and pointed out
sections of Obama's infomercial with a combination of 24 independents, republicans and democrats.

He said that segments of the film really touched the hearts of all especially about the guy who lost
his pension. "As you can see when this segment was played the graph went totally positive with all voters'

He then realized that Faux refused to show what the graph had done .

He said that his monitor showed it and asked Faux what happened on their side the segment ended right after that.

[DrToast]

1. That part about the guy's pension was tough to watch. n/t

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[Ichingcarpenter]

2. Faux didn't like to show the results. Also

The first segment they showed with the pensioner they played the audio, the next segment
which was on the school teacher the Faux person said to cut the audio because it wasn't necessary.

Luntz got frustrated cause they wouldn't show his results or show his graphs.

[Schema Thing]

3. Wow. Not often that watching Lou Dobbs is a pick-me-up for a democrat

but that was fun to watch. Thanks for posting.

[Supersedeas]

4. given a choice of whether to LIE for partisan gain/protection or tell the truth--FAUX lies everytime

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. The voters were from the I-4 corridor in Florida and had not voted yet

Anyway, he seemed to say that it was an extremely effective infomercial
and I thought his sample was important also.

[Supersedeas]

8. when the GoP Media Establishment 'poh-pohing' every positive thing about Obama,

this was welcome news -- thanks for sharing this IC

[burythehatchet]

13. I think Obama will gently make them irrelevant, which they already are to 80%

of the populous.

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. Part that got me was the arthritic woman's knarled fingers. Brilliant work

to identify a heart breaking struggle.

[grantcart]

7. If you have a chance to watch the documentary on the reworking of the

War Room it is very interesting and it has quite a positive interview with Luntz who basically says as a conservative he was inspired by the Clinton campaign and their campaign techniques.

At one point Dennis Kucinich walks by - Luntz is interviewed sitting outside in front of a building - and they share a warm greeting.

Luntz explains that Kucinich is one of his best friends in Washington even though they agree on nothing from a policy point of view, stating that was how Washington used to be, you could be friends across ideological lines.

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. I've saw him on Maher's show last week even he was smacked around

by Maher and the others but said that Obama would be the next president.


video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nEDcvZsIek

[SurfingAtWork]

9. They must have been beside themselves that he wasn't following the GOP narrative

[justiceischeap]

12. He'd lose credibility as a focus group guru if he'd lied.

Seems maybe he has a wee bit of integrity.

[npincus]

11. linky?

[Ichingcarpenter]

14. I don't have it, I reported what I saw. sorry.

Maybe it will be on youtube later.