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Oh My: The Brutal Post-Debate Focus Group

Uber Dave Wrote: Oct 04, 2012 9:14 PM
So Sybil, is it true that Ray Ancle is haunting your pulsating, fevered brain and making you do the things that anger the men in the white coats and cause them to chase after you with black-jacks and truncheons so they can make you go night-night and carry you back to your funny farm home? Do Olive Hoyle, Otto Bismarck, Mark Fenty and Zapdoodat and others constantly battle with Ray for any say in what you do? Doesn’t Institutionalized Halfwit get angry and depressed when Ray Ancle suppresses Olive Hoyle and talks you into escaping the Happy Acres Sanitarium? Don’t let Ray suppress the other personalities who infest your twisted mind, listen to them, they’ll lead you back to your funny farm home where all of you can help grow...
Uber Dave Wrote: Oct 04, 2012 9:15 PM
...the pansies and petunias and keep you from angering the men in the white suits.

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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