Obama/Romney Presidential Debate Poll Results [LIST]
Here is a list of major networks and results from their polls regarding who came out victorious in Tuesday night's presidential debate. There is only 20 days to go until Election Day 2012 on Nov. 6.
A CNN/ORC International poll of 457 registered voters who watched the debate last night revealed that President Barack Obama won the Tuesday night match-up. Forty-six percent said he did better than his competitor, Gov. Mitt Romney, and 39 percent thought Romney was victorious. The poll also showed that 73 percent thought Obama's performance exceeded their expectations, especially because of his downfall in the first debate, compared with 37 percent who thought Romney did better than expected.
Thirty-three percent of the survey takers identified themselves as Republicans and the same percentage identified themselves as Democrats.
"In every debate, whatever the format, whatever the questions, there is one and only one way to identify the winner: Who commands the room? Who drives the narrative? Who is in charge?" Yahoo News reporter and political correspondent Jeff Greenfield said. "More often than not on Tuesday night... Obama had the better of it."
NBC Chicago stated that a survey of the network's viewers revealed 2,558 to 991 that Obama prevailed, a complete reversal of their first debate match-up results, where viewers voted 1,946 to 933 that Romney won.
"President Obama soundly beat expectations in his second contest against Republican challenger Mitt Romney," The Washington Post reported, sourcing three sites where people bet on who will win the election - with Obama's chance rising as the debate went on last night.
One set of statistics included in the report showed a rise in the president's chances from 61.7 percent before the debate started, to 64.1 percent shortly after it ended.
An opinions piece in The Los Angeles Times said the following: "Romney attacked Obama's record, especially on the economy; Obama responded by attacking Romney's credibility. The campaign has returned to its pre-convention deadlock, a race that's within a single percentage point nationwide and too close to call in battleground states such as Ohio and Virginia."
It seems like the night had a clear winner.
