CNN says "No clear winner of tonight's debate." Who called it?

[NYC Liberal]

From an email CNN just sent out:

There was no clear winner of tonight’s presidential debate, according to a CNN/ORC International Poll of people who watched.

Debate viewers split 48% for President Obama and 40% for GOP challenger Mitt Romney in the poll, with a sampling error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.

A majority, 59%, of those who watched the Boca Raton, Florida, debate thought Obama performed stronger than expected, while 15% thought he was weaker than expected and 23% thought he performed on par with their expectations.

Romney outperformed the expectations of 44% of debate watchers, while 26% thought he performed weaker than expected and 26% said he performed on par with expectations.

It's completely laughable how predictable CNN is. What a joke.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Since when is 48 - 40 "no clear winner"?

[Posteritatis]

14. Seriously. I knew they'd use gymnastics to claim a tie, but goddamn. (nt)

[laundry_queen]

18. Just went I think

they can't get worse (because they'll blow their cover - ooops too late) they get worse. 48-40 is never a tie. Clearly, they have moved from not being able to be objective on over to not being able to count.

[fearnobush]

20. It's even worse that that. That poll is based off of debate watchers only who are 8% + GOP over Dem.

They skew it like this because they claim more rebubs watched the debate than dem. They are hopelessly failing the American people by claiming these numbers are reflective of the entire population.

[grantcart]

27. lol

[phleshdef]

2. LOL, no clear winner where Obama leads well outside of their margin of error.

CNN is a complete, utter fucking joke.

[Zoeisright]

3. And that's the fucking so-called "liberal media" for you.

CNN is made up of a bunch of turds.

[Curtland1015]

4. Hahahahahaha!!! Wow CNN sucks!

Obama wins the debate ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN POLL!

[madokie]

5. they're actually paying someone to come up with this shit

[amborin]

6. they're moving to the right of faux

[RomneyLies]

7. Obviously, CNN sucks harder than Fox

All the bullshit of Fox without the RWNJ viewership.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. They are not Faux Snooze lite. They ARE officially Faux Snooze. nt

[Bozita]

19. Yup, Faux Snooze Lite, and hoping their viewer numbers continue

Ted Turner must be going nuts, seeing this!

[spanone]

9. murdoch has to be eyeing that acquisition

[Azathoth]

10. The headline and narrative were written last month

They just plugged in numbers. CNN is a clown show.

[NYC Liberal]

17. Their homepage headline says "Obama takes swings in final debate", which is good.

Do you know what the CNN clowns are saying on TV? I can't watch.

[Azathoth]

21. Nah, I turned it off

Anyone who can actually sit through the postgame "analysis" should be declared legally braindead and barred from voting, IMHO.

[OldDem2012]

11. CNN, you might as well merge with FAUX because you're certainly not saying anything different.

[Matariki]

12. bwahahahaha! When did they become such complete tools??

idiots.

[amandabeech]

13. Gergen was forceful in his view that Obama had won.

I was really kind of surprised.

Ari Fleischer and Alex Castellanos, of course, thought that Rmoney won. I can't stand those guys.

Carville thought that Obama had won. Said that Obama did as well as 2d debate.

[spanone]

15. oddly, the poll on their website is 73 / 24 for Obama....but that's just what the people think.

[lonestarnot]

22. Ah nevermind those smucks, they are prollee too lazy to vote.

[hopeisaplace]

16. they admitted again that they polled more Republicans

said something like, they poll more Republicans because more Republicans watch the debates

..well I find THAT hard to believe...

[Bozita]

23. When you ask more elephants, they will almost always prefer an elephant to anything else

[Catherine Vincent]

24. What the eff is CNN's problem?

[Bozita]

26. CNN's relationship with truth ended when Ted Turner sold it.

[rdking647]

25. CNN also said there was no clear winner in tonights baseball game

[Bozita]

29. And the Tigers/Yankees series needs to be replayed to satisfy the moneyed folk.

It's all about the numbers of viewers.

[sfpcjock]

28. Yeah, right. They are full of it, as usual!

CNBC Online Poll: Obama beat Romney 2 to 1 - John Harwood, WSJ to Reinhold Priebus (his real name)

[Sparky 1]

30. CBS flash poll showed clear Obama win

Who won the debate?
A CBS flash news poll of uncommitted voters:
Obama 53%
Romney 23%
Tie 24%

[pokerfan]

31. I posted this on Saturday

What will it take for Wolf Blitzer to say Obama wins a debate?

I'm only asking because he characterized the results of this poll:



as a split decision.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021590546