Breaking Ranks

Was the debate a draw?

Well, in the sense that the nation is pretty evenly divided, and everyone thought their candidate won, yeah, probably so.

But Ann Althouse dug about in the ABC Poll and found something interesting:

Despite an overwhelming tendency to declare one's preferred candidate the winner of last night's debate, there were twice as many Kerry supporters who thought Bush won as Bush supporters who thought Kerry won. If you exclude those who chose their own candidate as the winner, along with those who saw the debate as a draw, the poll declares Bush the winner by a stunning two-to-one margin!

It's always interesting to see how things shake out as the moronic (and easily-manipulated) instant poll results give way to more sober polls.

Posted by Mitch at October 9, 2004 07:56 PM | TrackBack