Posted on 10/15/2012 1:43:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney will answer to a pool of about 100 undecided voters in Wednesday's town-hall style presidential debate in Hempstead, N.Y.
The voters were selected by the Gallup Organization, which has been tracking the Obama-Romney matchup on a daily basis throughout the general election.
This is the 20th anniversary of Gallup's partnering with the Commission on Presidential Debates for a town-hall style debate. In 1992, Gallup editor in chief Frank Newport said, no one had any idea what questions would be asked, and moderator Carole Simpson moved through the crowd of voters at random.
"It's a format that works very well, and it's a format that fits with my personal views, because I have a lot of faith in the average citizens of the country," Newport said.
This year, though, will be a little bit different.
Newport walked through the steps the organization goes through to select the pool. All of these voters will come from Nassau County:
* Gallup calls voters and repeats its normal questionnaire. For undecided voters, it probes further and asks if they lean more toward Obama or Romney.
* If voters identify as truly undecided, Gallup invites them to participate in the debate.
* Newport stressed that the voters have to identify as truly undecided — not even leaners or voters who say their choice could change are considered.
Of the 100, only a select few will be chosen to ask questions by debate moderator Candy Crowley.
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If your a disalussioned obamoron that can’t bring yourself to vote for Romney, or Romney doesn’t do it for you and you’re not sure if you’ll vote for him or stay home, that’s fine. But if you are truly undecided between Romney and Obama, then you’re brain dead.
Not gonna watch. Conflicts with more important matters; Tigers v. Yankees.
GO TIGERS!!!
"* If voters identify as truly undecided, Gallup invites them to participate in the debate."
Undecided Female Voter 1: See, it's like, you look all around, and you see all this stuff? And, everybody's got stuff but me! Where's mine?! Where's MY stuff?! I'm young, man! I should have stuff, too! WHERE'S MY STUFF?!!
Bill Clinton: Well, that's a really good point. I hear this a lot. I think if this election is about anything, it's about... "stuff". It's about the fact that, under Reagan, Bush, Quayle, more people are working harder and harder for less stuff.
[ Hillary nods and smiles ]
Undecided Female Voter 1: [ twitching ] Where's my stuff, man?!
Bill Clinton: Exactly! Where is your stuff? We're in danger of raising the first generation of Americans who... will have less stuff than their parents.
Undecided Female Voter 1: Stuff! Yeah!
"Im not sure...I want them both!"
"How would you like to be in the debate?"
Amazing that Romney/GOP has let this happen again. Seriously, would you have loved them to boycott demanding a right leaning moderator, just once? Where are the Fox journalists, why do we always have to tolerate CNN? When I first heard the moderator list, and got a call from the GOP for money, I told them to forget about it, I was not going to contribute again, enabling our candidate to be steamrolled, as usual, in the debates
Pony Tails. It is obligatory for a Pony Tailed guy to ask a question and to remind the candidates that “we are your children.”
The “undecided” “unaffiliated” voter thing is a joke. For that matter the idea that all debate questions need to be secret is silly. They ought to use a voir dire process. Let each campaign submit 30 questions. Let the candidates see the questions (with no aids or references) 60 minutes before the debate and let them each veto the 24 they don’t want. Then you have 12 honest questions and every body gets asked something the other side really wants you to answer. Lot’s more fun, lots more informative.
Why allow only those who can’t make up their minds to participate? How about an equal number of decided voters’ questions? This pandering to the undecided is absurd. We’d learn at least as much, if not more, from both sides’ biased questions.
In a diverse group, there must be a black, an Hispanic, a gay...like these are undecided, right?
In a diverse group, there must be a black, an Hispanic, a gay, a Muslim.....like these are undecided, right?
But it will be interesting to see what kind of questions people who have been pre-screened for political illiteracy will come up with...
"Uh, this question is for the president. Which one of you is that, anyway?"
Absolutely. More than one of the government hand-out, nanny state crowd.
I’ll be surprised if we see a pro-military man or woman.
“so we are going to get the most stupid people asking questions”
Yep.
I see.. a fat delusional Obama supporter as moderator and a room full of morons as an audience..
What could go wrong?..
Note: Anybody that don’t know who they will vote for is a moron OR LYING...
Thanks! I was wondering just that but it still skews things to the dims by 7 points ...
here is how it’ll go down.
First and foremost the questions are planted. CNN has wordsmithed them to assist Obama. They will be total garbage but this is what we have to deal with.
1- The dreaded 47% question asked by a black female. Why did he refer to his fellow Americans in such a way. He will backtrack a little but reiterate his political reality that a percentage not paying taxes won’t care about tax cuts. Obama will promise more free stuff and promise more class warfare and mention Romney’s taxes.
2- Woman that had an abortion and wants to know she can still abort babies if Romney is elected. She will be coached to say “women’s health” but she means abortion. The “feel your pain” moment for Obama re planned parenthood and Romney will be the bad guy for promising to defund abortion mills.
3- Student that is going to a local school and needs to borrow money. What will Romney do to make sure he can continue to borrow money so she can keep buying beer. Another “I’m just like you” class warfare moment and Obama will mention Romney’s taxes.
4- One homosexual asking about gay marriage and/or gay adoption and wondering why Mormons hate gays. Obama will be the “first gay president” moment.
5- One young person asking a nonsensical question about the economy and Crowley will softball it to Obama while sticking it to Romney. This will be their new version of the famed “Pony tail boy” that the Clintons planted in 1992.
6- One “mother” that’s concerned about PBS and “education” and want to be sure the schools will remain open after Romney is elected. Obama will promise her more free stuff.
7- One hajib sporting muslim that want to know what they will do to end the zionist oppression in Palestine.
8- One inarticulate “right winger” talking about legalizing pot and if Romney will end the fed and shut down all the depts not in the constitution.
9- One curveball questioner that actually asks a legit question re: Libya and Obama will dance around it and blame it on Hillary while Romney gets pestered because he issued a statement before the president’s team couldn’t get a lie together fast enough.
There will be no legit questions about the economy, no real questions about the state of foreign affairs but just pointless drivel. If Obama can throw together a cogent thought, he will be declared the winner by everyone and by Friday, he will lead in all the polls and the race will be declared over by Sunday, again..
That’s a point off the national percentage.
LOL!
But no fair - you peeked!
Why don't you say little commie maggot's MUSLIM ass? If he isn't a card carrying Muslim, Obama is doing all he can for Islam. And by Islam, it's obvious that means the Muslim Brotherhood.
And since the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization, wouldn't it be more accurate to say "terrorist commie maggot's MUSLIM ass?"
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