Did anyone see the independent voter control group results from the debate last night?

I missed the debate on TV and listened to it on the car radio. Did anyone pay attention to who the independents thought won the debate last night?|||The control groups on different stations produced different results as you can imagine. For instance on Fox the control group was overwhelmingly in favor of Palin, like 80-20. On CNN it was 50-30-20 for Biden. So depending on your perspective is what your take on the winner and loser is. What I did find compelling was the democrats immediately went into attack mode using phrases, like hokey, scripted, tight, uninformed, and when pressed on her presence, they admitted that she was relaxed, prepared, and confident. Which means, they really know she won, but would never admit to it.|||I did. You didn't miss anything important, that's for sure.....just that once again the media caters to idiots with a 56 IQ instead of to the general population. I wonder when the media will recognize that most Americans aren't stupid?





The sample size of the "independant", undecided "group" of voters was, at most, 10-15 people in a single room. That right there makes any results they presented thereafter completely statistically invalid, even assuming that those 15 people were indeed "undecided".





Having 15 people attempt to represent the views of over 100,000,000 voters is bordering on insanity if not completely irrelevant. I'm surprised they even ran that whole sham of a line-graph thing on TV at all.





I know I can decide for myself who I thought did a better job in the debate without needing to see what 15 other people may have thought. You can too. Hopefully some day the media can figure that out.|||Only a few people out of that group have now committed to one side or the other. Others are still undecided. And during the debate, the ratings were interesting. Lots of people liked Biden from undecided voters but his ratings also dropped when he carried on a little about nothing. And as for Palin, her ratings dropped BIGTIME when she said how she鈥檇 answer the question HER way and not the way the moderator or Biden wanted her to. And she babbled about her experience as opposed to answering the question. Ratings went from about 75 (from where Biden had just finished) and dropped as low as 40.





I know this is just a little mini consensus through that undecided group. But I found it VERY interesting! They seemed to be fairly split and were still undecided for the most part.





But it did say that both candidates were well liked and because of their debating, their ratings went up for that. Both increased 50% give or take.





I actually found the debate to be done very well. It was better than the Presidential that we had last week. (My opinion)


|||If you go by any poll you're crazy. They're all skewed toward the way that particular outlet wants it to go. For all you know they throw out some results so it goes a particular way. Go with what you feel and know. Also, do your own research through multiple sources and records. Don't just go with the flow....|||I don't know who you are referring to, however the only national poll reported thus far of UNCOMMITTED voters, a scientific random sample not some hokey unscientific TV nonsense, found that 46% thought Joe Biden did better, 21% thought Palin did better and 33% thought it was a tie.|||CNN had that squiggly line thing broken down to MEN and WOMEN.





Funny but to me it proved that WOMEN were the more intelligent of the species.





Men only reacted to Sarah Palin. Anything she said made that "line rise". Maybe that dial was attached to their little soldier.|||Depends on the station you watched.





The independants that Fox had on were about 75% for McCain after the debate.





The ones on CNN were 49% for McCain afterwards.





The Ones on MSNBC we 5% for McCain afterwards.|||nearly everyone thought Biden won the debate but Palin did well (beat expectations)





I watched ABC, NBC, and PBS. People on NPR this morning are also saying Biden won.|||All independent polls have shown Biden winning.





Also note of interest: the fox news poll which was put out to the country as a whole i think, not only independents, showed Biden winning|||Independents overwhelmingly thought Palin won it.|||The 3 white women supported and talk up Palin. The 1 black woman didn't. At least that is how it was on the Today show.|||I think they both did good. but Palin showed that she can handle VP and that she is NOT dumb!!|||Yes. They overwhelmingly thought Palin won.