Poll: Which candidate did best at the debate?

The Sun Sentinel ^ | October 23, 2012 | N/A

[securityMama]

The eyes of the world were on South Florida on Monday evening as issues of the world; foreign and military policy; took center stage in a presidential campaign that's been dominated, until now, by the economy.

[securityMama]

FREEP THIS POLL!

[skeeter]

I watched game 7 of the NL championships so missed the debate.

But today I'm reading words like "desperate, sneering, conscending" to describe Obama's performance. This explains the leftists high fives afterwards.

But did Obama learn nothing from the second debate? Being an A-hole may feel good but it doesn't win elections.

[silverleaf]

it seems to be doing pretty good without freeping

85% romney won, with over 10000 poll votes

[KeyLargo]

link http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/elections/sfl-presidential-debate-poll,0,7171531.poll

[SandRat]

as of now

Which candidate was more straightforward in his answers?

Barack Obama (1452 responses)

15%

Mitt Romney (8245 responses)

85%

9697 total responses

(Results not scientific)

Who earned the most style points?

Barack Obama (1547 responses)

15%

Mitt Romney (8477 responses)

85%

10024 total responses

(Results not scientific)

Which candidate was more aggressive?

Barack Obama (9357 responses)

94%

Mitt Romney (641 responses)

6%

9998 total responses

(Results not scientific)

Did either of the candidates persuade you tonight to vote for them?

Yes (6250 responses)

63%

No (3653 responses)

37%

Ask me in the morning. (92 responses)

1%

9995 total responses

(Results not scientific)

So, who won the debate?

Barack Obama (1464 responses)

15%

Mitt Romney (8589 responses)

85%

10053 total responses

(Results not scientific)

[silverleaf]

He learned that his Beavis-and-Butthead leftwing base enjoy snickering when he sticks it to the white guy

It was kinda like watching a dog fight where a poodle was snapping at a very patient mastiff

you laugh and cheer for the poodle but most voters know when you need a watchdog to keep the bad guys away, you go for the mastiff

[autumnraine]

I was about a mile and a half from where they were holding it walking around my car because I locked my keys in it and the locksmith couldn’t get to me because of the blocked roads. So much for ‘staying local’ to avoid getting stuck in traffic. Managed to screw up my night (well, *I* did by being stupid and careless) even if I was just a little bit away from home.

[Baynative]

Romney did a decent, but not superlative job of linking security and foreign policy to a strong economy.

Obama looked a bit more astute in the areas of foreign policy - probably by osmosis from sitting in a lot of meetings with Chiefs of Staff and diplomats.

It is hard to present a good debate on foreign policy in 80 minutes, if at all. I think the general public is not very interested or educated in all these matters of international conflict.

It could have been boiled down a bit by pointing out the Obama admin policy of considering terrorism to be workplace violence and instructing NASA to engage in Muslim outreach.

[THE_RAIDER]

I hate the prevent defense in football hate it more in politics. I thought Romney made some good points but didn't hammer a lot of stuff he should have home. Also thought as usual the narcissist in chief looked and sounded smug.

One other thing that bothered me after the debate were the talking heads for Romney all having the same talking points made me feel like we are all turning into a bunch of mind numb robots like the libtards.

[bgill]

The post debate surveys at CBS were definitely SeeBS One was something like O = 74% and R = 54%... say what?!? I checked online later and didn’t see those numbers so guess they fixed it by then but another of their surveys claimed 71% for O as if George Washington himself could get 71%. Of course, it was CBS that aired the election results last week (no lie) with 99% reporting that hussein had won.