Posted on 10/02/2004 5:47:04 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
LA TIMES POLL SUNDAY: Bush's favorability rating among debate viewers actually improved slightly (although within the survey's margin of error). Before debate, 51% of watchers viewed Bush favorably, 49% unfavorably; after, numbers were 52% and 47%...
It's about presentation.
For instance, in an academic setting, the point of the debate isn't necessarily which side is "correct", but which side presents it better. You can present a wonderful debate, be a "winner" and be pitifully wrong about the practical truth: case in point, Kerry.
The fact is, Dubya looked like a whipped puppy Thursday night. To the extent that the Kerry BS sells, he did a great sales job. And unfortunately, there are plenty of people out there - not necessarily enough, hopefully not enough - who can be sold the Brooklyn Bridge.
I am prayerful that the electorate, by and large,is more savvy than that. I'm just a little fearful of how many of the weaker minds are out there, that are much more impressed by a slick-talking con-man than by a honest, somewhat awkward, speaker.
So far, polls are indicating that I am a pessimist. I'm holding onto that hope.
Oh S***! The sky is falling! Someone is eating the Sun!
(/Chicken Little)
And just wait until Cheney makes stew out of Edwards on Tuesday. This just gets better and better.
Im very p*ssed. I came home and missed a call from the Rasmussen polling center. Damn! Was gonna register a Bush vote from a Democrat.
I saw electoral voting this afternoon and Bush has it overwhelmingly. Then I saw the "news" and it's neck and neck. Yeah, sure, on the latter. Just trying to get ratings and hoping people will watch their broadcast.
Perhaps Cheney will be W's "translator". He'll pommel Edwards and will not doubt make mush out of Kerry as well.
I think so too .. and I remember some member of the Kerry campaign saying the media would give Kerry a 15 pt lead.
Looks like Newsweek is the only one willing to drink the kool-aid.
The next three weeks, through the rest of the debates, we'll see large disparity between polls. Some will show Bush up MORE than before and others, like Newsweak and, oddly, Gallup, showing a tied race. However, the internals remain just on the right side of positive, which means I look for the polls to converge in the next 3 weeks.
Pardon my being off-topic, but did anyone else hear Drudge Radio, last night? I could swear Drudge reported there were several precincts in Ohio with more REGISTERED voters than they had ELIGIBLE voters in residence. What's the scoop on this, and what can be done?
2000 was only a warm up for stealing this one, I suspect.
I agree that Cheney will make up ground against the smiling suit. Cheney is not intimidated by anyone and he will throughly refute Edwards' inane arguments.
Fabulous! I also heard that people who watched the debates with sound-off had the same response as sound-on viewers. I suspected that sound-only listeners would go for Bush -- I think I was right-on.
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