Post-Debate Polling: It’s McCain!
CBS: Initial polling says undecideds like Obama. However,
CBS News and Knowledge Networks conducted a nationally representative poll of approximately 500 uncommitted voters reacting to the debate in the minutes after it happened.
Thirty-nine percent of uncommitted voters who watched the debate tonight thought Barack Obama was the winner. Twenty-four percent thought John McCain won. Thirty-seven percent saw it as a draw.
Sorry, I have to stick with the principle that McCain wins a draw. Especially amid all the expectations that McCain was going to get ruffled, McCain is desperate, Obama owns the anti-Bush, anti-GOP high ground on Iraq and the economy. That’s 61 percent for McCain.
Forty-six percent of uncommitted voters said their opinion of Obama got better tonight. Thirty-two percent said their opinion of McCain got better.
Interesting. What were their starting points?
Sixty-six percent of uncommitted voters think Obama would make the right decisions about the economy. Forty-two percent think McCain would.
Not a bad number for the Republican, given the drumbeat in the major lefty media organizations blaming the GOP for this mess.
Forty-eight percent of these voters think Obama would make the right decisions about Iraq. Fifty-six percent think McCain would.
That’s interesting. I thought its always been 60-70 percent or so of Americans hate this war and want out right away. Obie has failed to impress allegedly pro-surrender Americans, though as you know, they really only ever been anti-losing.
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:20 am on Saturday, September 27, 2008
2 Responses to “Post-Debate Polling: It’s McCain!”
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September 27th, 2008 at 11:28 am
The Mighty O! does not command the population like everyone thought He would earlier this year. While this is going to be a tight race, McCain is doing very well, given the Obamania hype.
So it’s possible, if not likely, that McCain will win. Which is a good thing indeed. Even that gets America declared racist by a bunch of bigoted Euroweenies.
September 27th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
For all the media hammering on McCain’s temper, I’ve yet to see his campaign try to strong-arm critics using legal maneuvers like Obama’s has. I see Obama as a slick-talking (with a teleprompter, that is) snake oil salesman who will do us tremendous damage, just like his spiritual father, Jimmy Carter, did.