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Luntz Focus Group: Trump Won The Debate, But It Was Close
Townhall.com ^ | October 19, 2016 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 10/19/2016 8:21:06 PM PDT by Kaslin

The final presidential debate of the 2016 presidential election is over and according to pollster Frank Luntz and his focus group, Trump was the winner of tonight's debate. That being said, it was close.

href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DebateNight?src=hash">#DebateNight pic.twitter.com/jDV5RP9eno— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) October 20, 2016

The other winner of the night is moderator Chris Wallace, who did an excellent job managing the candidates, asking questions and staying out of the debate as a contestant.

Chris Wallace is hands down the best moderator of the cycle, bravo #debates— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) October 20, 2016



TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016debates; debate; donaldtrump; finaldebate; hillary; hillaryrottenclinton; luntz; luntzfocusgroup; trump; trumphillarydebate3
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To: Cats Pajamas

I watched the actual debate on “One American” network and am watching the post debate coverage on Fox Business Network with Cavuto. You couldn’t pay me to watch FNC with Megyn Kelly.


41 posted on 10/19/2016 8:45:43 PM PDT by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: Mad Dawgg

And so???


42 posted on 10/19/2016 8:46:13 PM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: Nifster

I agree — Wallace is the “cream of the crap” when it comes to debate moderators.

CREAM OF THE CRAP! ....at best!


43 posted on 10/19/2016 8:49:00 PM PDT by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: gaijin
Lots of self-delusion going on here,

Ya think?

I have seen this movie many times starting in 1964.


44 posted on 10/19/2016 8:49:42 PM PDT by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack!Â… Bull Halsey)
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To: equaviator
Luntz the Dunce.

I thought it was Luntz the "slob". I guess it's both.

45 posted on 10/19/2016 8:49:49 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Personal Responsibility

This could be genius on Trump’s part. His reluctance to unilaterally say he would accept the results will bring the vote fraud possibility to the fore.
It WILL be the singular item discussed in the next week or two. The Veritas videos cannot be ignored now. Even by the MSM.

Trump’s media accumen on display again. A classic “Rope a Doper”.


46 posted on 10/19/2016 8:51:00 PM PDT by Tours
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To: gaijin

“Trump wiped the floor with her”

Bingo.


47 posted on 10/19/2016 8:53:20 PM PDT by Helicondelta (Deplorable)
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To: Kaslin

I turned it off about 9:15 CT. Couldn’t stand Wallace constantly interrupting Trump but letting Clinton ramble on and on and on.

I did catch about 1 minute of CSPAN just after 10:00 getting comments on the debate. Of the 5 comments, 3 were pro-Trump, 1 was undecided still and 1 didn’t like any of the 4 candidates.


48 posted on 10/19/2016 8:53:39 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: editor-surveyor

Good point. Had Trump said yes to that answer this place would of erupted in anger. He could’ve framed the answer a little better, but I think most rational Americans knew what he meant and agree with him!


49 posted on 10/19/2016 8:54:41 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Kaslin

My thoughts on tonight’s debate, the 3rd presidential debate:

Supreme Court:

2nd Amendment: Trump absolute support, as intended by the founders. Clinton uses all sorts of legaleze against it.

Partial Birth Abortion (ie. the horrible dismemberment/killing of nine month term babies in the wonud): Trump absolutely against it saying it should never happen. Clinton absolutely for it.

Immigration:

Trump for controlled borders, modern, workable wall, finging. fighting and ridding the cuntry of the Mexican cartels, deportation of illegals, must come in legally. Halt to Syrian/Mid-east refugees who cannot be vetted.

Clinton for open amnesty, open borders, huge increase to mid-east/Syrian refugees, etc.

Taxation:

Clinton for a massive tax increase, including (though they did not quote her tonight) on the middle class. Huge increase on corporation (whih will drive more jobs away). Furhter destroy the free economic engine of this country. Massive public works/government prgrams for jobs.

Trump massive tax cut to corporation to draw them and their jobs back to America. Also a tax decrease to all, to genergate more small business. Restart the free economic engine of this country.

Obama Care:

Clinton. Keep it but make it even stronger and “better”.

Trump, repeal and replace it with a market drvien strategy, openining state borders to all who want to provide care across those borders.

In General:

Clinton clearly wants to, and would be proud to, double down on Obama’s policies. She is a marxist and wwatns to institute absolute marxust poilicies on American whole grain

Trump is an American entrepreneaur who wants to restart the free market and undertstands that if he can do that, the market will grow massively and when coupled with sound fiscal policy and spending, will resolve the debt, unemplyment, growth, the GDP, etc.

Trump trully wants to and is serious about making American Great again. He believe it.

The naysayers said al the same things about Reagan, how his economics could not work. I lived through it. It was th strngest econmic period for the country in my life and really saved a faltering nation in the eraly 80s...this nation.

Trump will do the same if the American people can see through the flim-flam men supporting the DNC, the MSM, and the RINOs.
I pray they can, and that God in Heaven allows their already obvious anger and frustration with life-long, establishment politicians and their lies, and ploys...to move them to choose the right on November 8th and make Donald Trump our next Prsident wth Mike Pence as his VP.


50 posted on 10/19/2016 8:54:46 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: House Atreides

LOL!


51 posted on 10/19/2016 8:54:52 PM PDT by nutmeg (I am a proud Deplorable)
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To: Lent

I saw that on Breitbart......doesn’t make much sense.


52 posted on 10/19/2016 8:55:42 PM PDT by Girlene
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To: Kaslin

To be the best of the moderators isn’t saying much, but he was better than the rest in the q’s he posed. He just should have shut her up better. He’d say “Madame Secretary....” and she’d just roll right over him till she was finished with what she had to say. I can’t even stand the thought of having to listen to that voice for four years, God forbid.


53 posted on 10/19/2016 8:55:46 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: conservativepoet
"If “truth vs. lies” matter then it’s a clear Trump win."



"Obama cut the deficit by 50% and 90% of
all money collected by the Clinton Foundation goes to charity"

54 posted on 10/19/2016 8:57:51 PM PDT by Baynative (Freedom; the dream of every human, the birth right of every American.)
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To: Kaslin

Chris Wallace was a better moderator than the others in the same way as Bill Clinton was a better president than Obama.


55 posted on 10/19/2016 8:58:14 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: Personal Responsibility
Trumps reticence to accept the outcome of the election is all that people will talk about. Rightly or not, that’s what they’ll latch on to.

The reasonable thing is for one to want to see a non fraudulent election, before one accepts the election results.

I bet a lot of people across the country agree with that.

56 posted on 10/19/2016 8:58:16 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Lent

Before my fifteenth internet disconnect of the night I voted at the NJ.com site,where Trump was up @ 62% with over 20K votes. Been on the phone ever since w/Verizon and at least temporarily have my internet back ... off to FReeping the polls.


57 posted on 10/19/2016 8:58:42 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: gaijin

I agree. I thought it was close to a draw.


58 posted on 10/19/2016 8:59:08 PM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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To: Baynative

Exactly


59 posted on 10/19/2016 8:59:08 PM PDT by conservativepoet
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To: Lent

Now go and vote on Breitbart because she is ahead on that poll.Trump is ahead on the Drudge poll.

Breitbarts Poll has Hacked.


60 posted on 10/19/2016 8:59:52 PM PDT by heights
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