You are right-I don’t believe Luntz’s group was independent.
Breaking on FNC - a PA focus group done by a Wilkes-Barre paper went big for McCain tonight in the debate. That’s Pennsylvania which Obama needs or he is toast!
Those “Independents” sounded as if they had made up their minds long ago.
I had planned on replying to your comment last night, but just as I started writing it, the power went out here for a couple of hours. I too was wondering about Luntz’s so-called group of independent voters. I hadn’t heard all of his explanation about how they were chosen, and thank you for posting it. I had caught the last few minutes where he asked those same people questions about the debate. They were the same people he had shown earlier in the evening. I did catch that they were all from Nevada, and wondered if they hadn’t lied their way into a free trip to Vegas. It just seemed strange that no one in that group pointed out any problems with Obama’s performance in the debate, because we all know there were plenty. It was all negative stuff about McCain, so one has to believe that Luntz heavily edited the tapes to make it look positive toward Obama.