Survey USA did an actual poll in the Tampa area on who won the debate (note this is FL)

[sailingaway]

so not Ron's best state, and I'm pretty sure it reflects who people like, not who they actually think won. I doubt 14% actually think Perry won....:


Mitt Romney 28%
Rick Perry 14%
Newt Gingrich 10%
Ron Paul 8%
Herman Cain 7%
Jon Huntsman 6%
Michele Bachmann 3%
Rick Santorum 1%
Gary Johnson 0%
No clear winner 23%

http://argojournal.blogspot.com/2011/09/poll-watch-surveyusa-tampa-st_23.html

[IndianaPolitico]

Wow, not too bad at all. Especially with only 4 and a half minutes of speaking time, and in Florida!

[garyallen59]

nice!

[bluesc]

In Florida, that is great. Notice how Johnson got 0%.. Fox failed.

[D.A.S.]

Nice! 8% is in line with the recent state poll in Florida (was it PPP or Quinnipac, I forget).

[LinuxJedi]

I just did a quick correlation of a few things...

Who won (this poll in OP) vs. Talking time: 0.8000848

Who won vs. RCP average polling: 0.7586898

Talking Time vs. Polling: 0.7978845

I don't have polling data for Gary, so I put him as zero for the correlation.

What this means: "who won" is strongly correlated for "how long they talked". This makes sense. This also shows "time talking at debate" is strongly correlated with "polling". This is a measurable bias in the debates. There is a questionable correlation between "who won" and "polling", thus the people who are picking "who won the debate" are not super biased against "who is doing best in the polls".

[libertybrewcity]

they think Romney won because that's what Fox News told them.