“The one who calls anti-amnesty proponents “racists?” No thanks!”
The question wasn’t whether you like a candidate’s, like Huckabee’s positions; which it isn’t my intention to defend or denigrate. The question was how can you, except your own wants/desires declare that Senator Thompson won the debate. Rudy’s guys are probably saying the same thing.
There has to be some objected measure by which this can be judged. It seems to me, that what effect did the debate have on undecideds is most important. Most have already firmly fixed themselves upon a single candidate. It is the undecideds that count. How did this group perceive the debate, who were they most impressed with?
“There has to be some objected measure by which this can be judged.”
Really, there isn’t. If their campaign was helped, they did okay. But it is hard to measure. Some people do “great” in a debate then lose the election. Well did they ‘win’ the debate after all? If someone is shilling for ‘their guy’ saying how great they did not matter what, then it’s spin just like the post-debate spin-room spin.
There has to be some [objective] measure by which this can be judged.
***That’s why I post Intrade results before & after the debates. This time around I couldn’t get a “before” snapshot.
The latest debate showed that Thompson lost and Huckabee won.
http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/contractSearch/
As far as I can tell, it’s the best way to determine the winner with an unbiased approach.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914434/posts?page=244#65
To: jellybean
Here’s the Intrade results. Unfortunately I couldn’t get a snapshot prior to the debate. Best evidence shows that Fred Thompson lost and Huckabee won.
2008 Republican Presidential Nominee
2008.GOP.NOM.GIULIANI
Rudy Giuliani to be the Republican Presidential Nominee in 2008 M 43.7 44.2 44.3 118431 +0.1
2008.GOP.NOM.ROMNEY
Mitt Romney to be the Republican Presidential Nominee in 2008 M 25.8 26.5 26.0 98691 0
2008.GOP.NOM.THOMPSON(F)
Fred Thompson to be the Republican Presidential Nominee in 2008 M 11.3 11.4 11.3 89111 -0.7
2008.GOP.NOM.PAUL
Ron Paul to be the Republican Presidential Nominee in 2008 M 6.4 7.3 7.3 69726 -0.2
2008.GOP.NOM.MCCAIN
John McCain to be the Republican Presidential Nominee in 2008 M 6.5 6.8 6.9 147959 +0.4
2008.GOP.NOM.HUCKABEE
Mike Huckabee to be the Republican Presidential Nominee in 2008 M 4.8 4.9 4.9 55649 +1.7
2008.GOP.NOM.HUNTER
Duncan Hunter to be the Republican Presidential Nominee in 2008 M - 0.1 0.1 27778 0
Tommy Thompson to be the Republican Presidential Nominee in 2008 M - 0.1 0.1 30079 0
2008.GOP.NOM.TANCREDO
Tom Tancredo to be the Rep Presidential Nominee in 2008 M - 0.1 0.1 31505 0
65 posted on 10/21/2007 9:27:32 PM PDT by Kevmo (We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.))
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