Fox News Focus Group Overwhelmingly Picks Palin
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Biden, Debates, Palin, Veep, VideoFrank Luntz talks to undecideds…
I heard a lot of people in that segment who had really low expectations of her going into this, but fair enough…there’s at least one group who thought she bested Biden.
Again, I think all of those folks who thought she’d implode were really fooling themselves. I watched a debate with her from the 2006 Alaska gubernatorial race and she did just fine.
This entry was posted on Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 and is filed under 2008 Election, Biden, Debates, Palin, Veep, Video. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:03 pm
lol wut
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Yea? Well, look at the doublespeak that the McCain camp is peddling.
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:33 pm
My first instinct is to laugh. There is no way those were undecided voters (notice that they merely pointed out who they voted for last time, not who they were voting for this time). However, my dad is a Fox News junky and he was impressed. Now, I’m very sad.
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Can Frank Luntz possibly be any more overtly biased? Four people raise their hands to say the debate made them change their minds (1 against McCain/Palin), and that leads him to claim that there is going to be a real shift in the next 48 hours? Laughable.
Palin was good, better than expected. I thought she drove home some great points, and her delivery was crisp. But it was empty rhetoric. And being able to deliver a compelling performance of obviously scripted lines does not qualify her to hold the #2 position in this country. That woman scares me, and I thought McCain’s choice of her was irresponsible. If Americans are so easily swayed by somebody who says “heck” and “gosh darn it” every other sentence, then our country deserves the negative opinion that people around the world hold of us.
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Meh. Palin rose to the occasion tonight, but all she really accomplished was to get her 2012 presidential run off to a good start. The looming financial disaster (which may soon come with or without a bailout) has likely already sealed her and McCain’s fate.
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:55 pm
who are these people? frank, this is terribly dissappointing. both the fox broadcast of the ’special interest’ group and the nice folks who seem a bit disinformed. it is a scary thought that her potential role could someday be commander in chief, and this is NOT a partisan statement I can assure you. she did fine, but not even close to joe biden. really.
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:04 am
Launch her 2012 campaign? Surely, that is a joke. She has done nothing to even be considered an also ran for the 2008 election.
Her handlers cringe when they think of her debating this year and you think she has the stuff to run for president?!?
I am flabbergasted.
Palin has a one thing going for her–she cna give a prepared speech. Deviate from the speech and she’s dead. That’s why her performance last night was so out of synch–she had a prepared speech and ignored the questions asked. Crap, sometimes she even answered questions three questions later.
I know every politician uses these debate questiones to talk about things they want to talk about, but I never seen a politician so defiantly opposed to answer the question put to her–to the point where she actually said she wasn’t going to answer the questions put to her by the moderator or Biden.
C’mon, I get being loyal to your party, but if you are a serious person you were embarrassed for the GOP last night.
There is nothing else there.
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:21 am
I thought that early on Palin was an incoherent trainwreck. I had been leaning towards McCain recently, but now I am officially terrified that Palin would be a heartbeat away.
Palin for President in 2012. Are you effing kidding me? When she can consisistently string 3 complete sentences together into a coherent chain of thought without mentioning main street, mavericks, or energy policy, she might get my attention. Back to kindergarten with her, I say.
October 3rd, 2008 at 10:07 am
Did you see the clip of the Fox News reporter (replayed on the Olberman show) who asked a diner-room filled with “regular” folks to raise their hands if the were voting for Obama (almost all did), and then asked for a show of hands for McCain (almost none did), and then reported, “Well, it’s split – maybe a little heavier for Obama”?
So, yeah, they’re really a “no-apin zone”. I’m sure they didn’t pad their focus group at all. Not Fox.
They are a joke. (so is Olberman, btw)
October 3rd, 2008 at 10:59 am
and then a diner incredulously exclaims “Split?!?” and they all laugh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTkqosRiyYo
It’d be much funnier if the future of our country weren’t, you know, at stake.