Posted on 09/27/2008 12:15:31 PM PDT by Chet 99
State of Washington Independents Say McCain is Clear Winner of 1st Presidential Debate:
Immediately following tonight's debate between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama, SurveyUSA interviewed 1,000 state of Washington adults, of whom 631 watched tonight's debate.
Of all debate watchers:
40% say McCain was the clear winner. 38% say Obama was the clear winner. 23% say there was no clear winner.
But: Independents, the most critical, coveted and arguably most dispassionate group of debate watcher, gave by 4:3 the nod to McCain.
Republicans by 6:1 say McCain won. Democrats by 6:1 say Obama won. Those two groups offset.
Debate watchers say McCain understands Iraq better, McCain understands Iran better, McCain understands Russia better. Debate watchers split on who they trust more on the economy, split on who was more presidential. Overwhelmingly, debate watchers say moderator Jim Lehrer was fair to both candidates. About half wish Lehrer had spent more time on the economy.
SurveyUSA state of Washington research conducted exclusively for KING-TV Seattle.
(Excerpt) Read more at surveyusa.com ...
This was posted before, but I thought it should be reposted since people continually repost the CNN poll.
Great! Where is his voice against ACORN!!
While it’s good to see independents breaking for McCain, I’m not sure that it will be enough to overcome WA being blue.
Wow. I would expect “independents” in Washington state to mean “more socialist than the mainstream socialists”.
I’ll say it again:
Uh-bam-uh can have the last 17 states, as long as McCain takes the 40 that make up the real world.
If RAT internals see the same thing someone is passing out gasoline, empty coke bottles, old rags and lighters about now...?
I wish we could have Jim Lehrer doing the VP debate Thursday night.
He was a true pro last night. I admire him.
The “media” was reporting last night that, although McCain clearly won the debate, Obama had “convinced” the Indies to vote for him. Go figure.
If McCain did this well with indeps. in blue leaning WA perhaps the news from the rest of the country is better. Looks like maybe a lot of viewers saw a different debate from the one many of the pundits were describing. If McCain did well then it’s too bad viewership was low.
Those dolts who make up one of those “focus groups” on TV supposedly favored 0bama though some viewers think some might have been Demo plants. Would not surprise me.
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