CBS Poll: Uncommitted Voters Say Obama Won Final Debate
As in the previous debates, CBS News and Knowledge Networks have conducted a nationally representative poll of uncommitted voters to get their immediate reaction to tonight's presidential debate. In the first presidential debate, second presidential debate and vice presidential debate, more uncommitted voters said the Democratic candidate was the victor. And it looks like tonight's results will make it a clean sweep. These numbers are preliminary, and will change slightly as more respondents are added, but here's where things stand with most of the results in: Fifty-three percent of the uncommitted voters surveyed identified Democratic nominee Barack Obama as the winner of tonight's debate. ...More uncommitted voters trusted Obama than McCain to make the right decisions about health care. Before the debate, 61 percent of uncommitted voters said that they trust Obama on that; after, 69 percent said that....Before the debate, 54 percent thought Obama shared their values. That percentage rose to 63 percent after the debate.
As in the previous debates, CBS News and Knowledge Networks have conducted a nationally representative poll of uncommitted voters to get their immediate reaction to tonight's presidential debate.
In the first presidential debate, second presidential debate and vice presidential debate, more uncommitted voters said the Democratic candidate was the victor. And it looks like tonight's results will make it a clean sweep. These numbers are preliminary, and will change slightly as more respondents are added, but here's where things stand with most of the results in: Fifty-three percent of the uncommitted voters surveyed identified Democratic nominee Barack Obama as the winner of tonight's debate.
...More uncommitted voters trusted Obama than McCain to make the right decisions about health care. Before the debate, 61 percent of uncommitted voters said that they trust Obama on that; after, 69 percent said that.
...Before the debate, 54 percent thought Obama shared their values. That percentage rose to 63 percent after the debate.
Fox News: Focus Group of undecided independent voters conducted by Frank Luntz for Fox News Frank Luntz:"…none had made a decision to support Sen. Obama before the debate, but more than half supported after the debate. It was a good night for Barack Obama."
CNN POLL: Who spent more time attacking during the debate? McCain – 80%Obama – 7%
TNR: Stan Greenberg's Focus Group: "Decisive" for Obama
...Stan Greenberg ..said the respondents felt Obama "won" and that the results were "more decisive than either of the last two." That's a reference to Greenberg's previous focus groups, which also came away preferring Obama. The most striking result came on the favorability ratings. Although the focus group was officially undecided, it leaned towards McCain. Here were the favorability-unfavorability ratings for each candidate at the start: Obama: 42 favorable / 42 unfavorable Here's what the ratings looked like after the debate: Obama: 72 favorable / 22 unfavorable Interestingly, Obama's most popular answer was about education. The focus group seemed particularly pleased about his riff on asking parents to take more responsibility for their children. According to Greenberg, this is likely part of the reason the focus group felt that, overall, Obama shares their values.
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