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Oh My: The Brutal Post-Debate Focus Group

John5103 Wrote: Oct 04, 2012 4:49 PM
Obama's choice over the last 4 years not to engage his opponents or submit to scrutiny has come back to bite him. Insulating himself with yes-men has atrophied him, turned him into more of an adolescent than he was before, only this time he's saddled with a dismally failed record and an insurmountable credibility problem. It doesn't get any better for him. What we are witnessing now is just the accelerating plunge from pent-up downward energy.

The only focus group you really needed to get the gist of how this debate turned out was the circus on MSNBC after it ended.  The anchors ranged from morose to unhinged.  But what about the rest of America?  I flagged a few nuggets from the network's insta-polls last night, but let's circle back, shall we?  First up is CNN, which polled 430 American adults (not likely, or even registered, voters) with a D+4 sample.  So the deck was somewhat stacked to begin with.  And yet:
 

- 67 percent said Romney won the debate, 25 percent...

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