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Should Obama Supporters Start Freaking Out? (spoiler alert - "No")
No one on the left is making the case that President Obama’s listless first debate against Mitt Romney was a good thing for the campaign. The question now is how worried they should be amid early post-debate polling showing a Mitt Romney surge. Mild concern? Creeping fear? Full-blown freakout?
The undisputed captain of Team Freakout is Newsweek’s Andrew Sullivan, the longtime Obama supporter who has written a number of cover stories advocating for his campaign. His post-debate analysis of how Obama “plummeted into near-oblivion” is so spectacularly glum that it spawned its own parody account on Twitter, @SullyPanic (sample tweet: “After Wednesday’s debate I’m leaving the Catholic church. God is dead.”)
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That said, more optimistic Democrats found several mitigating factors to keep them away from the ledge. Most notably, several pollsters, including Rasmussen, Gallup, PPP, and ABC News, found Romney surging (albeit less dramatically) in their own numbers — but only in the immediate aftermath of the debate. By the weekend, things seemed to be shifting back towards Obama. The bulk of Pew’s numbers came Thursday and Friday.
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“Nobody should be freaking out because we have yet to see a lot of good quality data in any of the swing states,” the strategist said. “I’ve already seen some quality polls in some of the swing states that show things to be relatively stable.” He dismissed national polling as “largely irrelevant,” but did say movement for Romney post-debate is real. “There was always going to be a tightening. Am I dismissing the movement? No,” he said. “Clearly something’s going on when 70 million people watch the debate. There’s clearly an interest in this stuff that’s at an all time high. So we can’t dismiss it but I think that the notion that the sky is falling is probably overdone.”
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/democratic-freakout-obama-romney-polls.php
The undisputed captain of Team Freakout is Newsweek’s Andrew Sullivan, the longtime Obama supporter who has written a number of cover stories advocating for his campaign. His post-debate analysis of how Obama “plummeted into near-oblivion” is so spectacularly glum that it spawned its own parody account on Twitter, @SullyPanic (sample tweet: “After Wednesday’s debate I’m leaving the Catholic church. God is dead.”)
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That said, more optimistic Democrats found several mitigating factors to keep them away from the ledge. Most notably, several pollsters, including Rasmussen, Gallup, PPP, and ABC News, found Romney surging (albeit less dramatically) in their own numbers — but only in the immediate aftermath of the debate. By the weekend, things seemed to be shifting back towards Obama. The bulk of Pew’s numbers came Thursday and Friday.
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“Nobody should be freaking out because we have yet to see a lot of good quality data in any of the swing states,” the strategist said. “I’ve already seen some quality polls in some of the swing states that show things to be relatively stable.” He dismissed national polling as “largely irrelevant,” but did say movement for Romney post-debate is real. “There was always going to be a tightening. Am I dismissing the movement? No,” he said. “Clearly something’s going on when 70 million people watch the debate. There’s clearly an interest in this stuff that’s at an all time high. So we can’t dismiss it but I think that the notion that the sky is falling is probably overdone.”
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/democratic-freakout-obama-romney-polls.php
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winning chaps me to no end! He did not win but too many ingorant (of the issues and actual debate techniques) people say he did without weighing the content of the debate and how Obama had command of the details. Romney's lies and aggressive denails should mean 0 when it comes to scoring the debate but unfortunately in this country, the knock out, superficial reality of game shows and sports wins the day!
