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Sematary
08-06-2007, 12:57 PM
Lewrockwell says 25 people were in the focus group.
Another site - the freedom fellowship, says 40:

John was "on the ground" yesterday with 100+ other Ron Paul supporters chanting and whooping it up in the "protest area" outside the forum where the ABC Iowa Republican debates were being held. There were only 15 supporters for Romney and 10 or less for Rudy and next to none for the other candidates. According to John, the voices of the Ron Paul supporters could be heard echoing throughout the buildings all around the neighborhood. John also talks in depth about his eye-witness experience with a Fox News sponsored "focus group" which may or may not be aired/used. There were over 2000 people in this restaurant in attendance and 40 individuals were pre-selected for this focus group airing. The responses from this group were almost - across in the board - in strong support of Ron Paul. There was one question when Fox News asked the group to raise their hands and 30 were raised in support of Ron Paul (75 %). As this was happening the one of the Fox producers made the comment - something like - "please don't feel like your being pressured or intimidated to support Ron Paul because of all the Ron Paul supporters here in town" etc.

http://thefreedomfellowship.blogspot.com/

Anybody know if/where there is a release by FOX on this to clear up the discrepancy?

mport1
08-06-2007, 01:06 PM
"please don't feel like your being pressured or intimidated to support Ron Paul because of all the Ron Paul supporters here in town"

Yeah, and let us pressure you to support Romney or Rudy.

Ninja Homer
08-06-2007, 01:14 PM
Anybody know if/where there is a release by FOX on this to clear up the discrepancy?

I haven't seen a release by Fox on this, but that may be the reason they interviewed him later that day.

Bradley in DC
08-06-2007, 01:30 PM
There were more than one focus group for the debate from different observers.

Sematary
08-06-2007, 01:36 PM
There were more than one focus group for the debate from different observers.

Any links? Frank Luntz (is that right) had one in Iowa and had Huckabee winning from what I understand.

Sematary
08-06-2007, 01:39 PM
It is difficult to argue with credibility if two different sources give two different accounts of the same event.

Sematary
08-07-2007, 12:14 AM
any help with this? Anybody found anything?