Who Won The Vice Presidential Debate Last Night? Poll Reveals Biden/Ryan Debate Winner
A CNN poll taken right after the vice presidential debate on Thursday night, Oct. 11, revealed that viewers had a hard time picking a clear winner in the Joe Biden vs. Paul Ryan face-off.
Making it a close call, 48 percent of voters who watched the vice presidential debate thought that Rep. Paul Ryan won the match. Forty-four percent say that Vice President Joe Biden was victorious.
The CNN/ORC International nationwide poll was conducted right after Thursday night's match-up of the two candidates.
Also revealed in the poll: 55 percent said Biden did better than expected, while 51 percent said that the Ryan exceeded their expectations.
What about last night's debate affecting who they would vote for as president?
CNN added that half of all debate watchers questioned in the poll said watching the debate did not make them more likely to vote for either President Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. Only 28 percent said the debate made them more likely to vote for the Republican presidential nominee, and 21 percent said the show made them more likely to vote to re-elect President Obama.
An NBC poll done after the presidential debate on Oct. 3, however, showed that viewers could at least could come to a clear agreement about who won that face-off.
An informal poll of NBC 5 viewers voted 1,946 to 933 that Gov. Romney prevailed, according to the network.
They also noted that some analysts called President Obama's performance "lackluster and wondered what happened to the key points of his Chicago-based campaign."
Some attributed Romney's success to his personable, charming demeanor, but a column in the National Journal claimed it was Obama's debate to lose, and the reason he did not do better was "the curse of incumbency."
"Like many of his predecessors, President Obama fell victim Wednesday night to high expectations, a short fuse and a hungry challenger," columnist Ron Fournier wrote immediately following the debate's conclusion.
