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Posted by: deathray 2 years, 7 months agoOur partners at MediaCurves.com played selected scenes from the CNN debate for 396 Republicans and independents. Watch the video to see how they responded to the clips in real time. (Note the interesting reactions to Mitt Romney's discussion of abortion and John McCain's warm words about "Hispanics.")
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deathray
June 8, 2007, 11:28 a.m.FTA: "Our partners at MediaCurves.com played selected scenes from the CNN debate for 396 Republicans and independents. Watch the video to see how they responded to the clips in real time. (Note the interesting reactions to Mitt Romney's discussion of abortion and John McCain's warm words about "Hispanics.")"
Regardless of your party affiliation, this kind of response analysis can either fine tune your rhetoric and positions on issues (assuming you care what people think) or you can do some real opposition research based on perceived weaknsses in arguments.
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Amazing1
June 8, 2007, 11:36 a.m.Thanks for the posting. I would like to have seen more of the candidates on this type of reaction thing, not just the "top tier" people.
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stephen-johnson
June 8, 2007, 11:38 a.m.Looks like Romney isn't getting any traction.
Too bad - he might be the most capable in the bunch
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trnscndr
June 8, 2007, 11:38 a.m.I have worked with people using this same technology during mock trials in very expensive trial preparation; yes, twisted but it works. They all do it; there are rooms full of people testing the efficacy of their canned comments all across America. It is big business.
Great story.
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joeeddie
June 8, 2007, 11:59 a.m.I saw some of this coverage after the debates. The interesting point that they made on debate night was that the peaks grew when the candidates needled each other and Bush. I can understand the spikes when they were negative towards Bush, but I was hopeful that the "negative campaigning" was going to be less effective. I guess a lot of the American voting public still respond positively to the negatives.
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Radiofreeeuropa
June 8, 2007, 12:41 p.m.Good stuff DR. The moderating has become ludicrous. I sat in amazement during the last debates as Brit Hume, who IS Herman Munster by the way, fired off questions that involved long drawn out "movie " plots that were far longer than the responses. "What if Muslims from another planet crossed the international dateline while hiding petroleum jelly in their shoes drew obscene pictures of Pickles and threatened the dogs in Nebraska who lived in blue houses near skating rinks while Volunteer firemen were collecting donations etc. etc.......ad hokum....
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RickyDawkins
June 8, 2007, 1:20 p.m.None of the Republicans raised their hands when asked if gays should be allowed to serve in the military (openly). This is why Repugs make me sick, they are discriminators.
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Bkumm
June 8, 2007, 2:47 p.m.Is it just me or do all of the Republicans (candidates) look like their afraid of they're own shadows? Is is possible that they are confused as to the big issues? I watched the Democrats the other night and they looked like a bunch of bunnies sitting in the yard right after you turn the spotlight on 'em. Silly rabbits. The Republicans just looked scared. Not that funny kind of, oh, crap, I don't know what to say scared, but rather the oh, my GOD, I don't know how I could possibly screw up this first date worse kind of scared.
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SlapALib
June 8, 2007, 2:50 p.m.As cable and/or satellite develops we'll be able to sit at home and rate everything in real time.
It'd be funny to see a President change position in a speech due to media curves. LOL
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simonsez
June 8, 2007, 2:57 p.m.This reads more like an office party than a debate. It was a pleasant experience to read through the comments for once.
Did everybody get a nice rain or something?
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simonsez
June 8, 2007, 3:26 p.m.I like Bloomberg/Jim Webb. Good manager, smart, already has enough money.
Webb's a comer that could get votes from both sides, I think.
I don't think we have to limit ourselves to those who say they "want the job". Let's do an executive search and find our leader.
Trump is out!
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protoham
June 8, 2007, 4:12 p.m.Where is the blue line on the republican debate. What the Dems think.
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icono1
June 8, 2007, 4:33 p.m.So when all else fails the Repo's quote Abe Lincoln about what it is to be an American. Nice idea and good post.
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ConquerorWyrm
June 8, 2007, 6:39 p.m.This has one major and serious flaw, and thus the reason for my 'sink'...
By highlighting the three media picked candidates and seperating them from the others, it bloth places undue emphasis upon those three as well as detracting from closer scrutiny of the other non-media-favored candidates. This gives a false impression of the three 'top-tier' media approved candidates as well as stifling any possibility for this 'grading' to fairly express such non-conformisht (to the current party perversion) candidates as Dr. Paul, who, if you'll read responses on places such as here (Netcape) and, after the Fox debate and their own text polling, recieves more non-media approval than any of the three 'front-runners'. These ratings, as expressed, mean nothing and are pointless (at best).
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GHOSTWHOWALKS
June 8, 2007, 10:37 p.m.Mapping a response to what passes for a debate today would depend on who the viewers are, and how they were selected. To stack the viewers who only believe what they hear without bothering to analyze what has been said and filter that through other sources of information and difference of opinion leads to a biased viewer and the failure to elect responsible politician's who put loyalty to the Constitution before any personal greed. It doesn't matter where one stands left, right, center, a liberal, neocon, or independent. Reason and dialogue must be the filters used when deciding when to vote and for whom. Getting all one's information from 30 second TV segments, voting for a party regardless of who is the candidate, has led this nation into becoming a pariah. I urge everyone to use their brains for something besides keeping their ears from slapping together and do the research before casting one of our most fundamental and cherished rights.
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SwampFox1
July 10, 2007, 6:35 p.m.I'm not going to start posting nasty-assed comments on the boards. I have not one single grip with anyone here. For the most part, I have found intelligent, well thought out posts. You guys aren't the bad-guys. If you take exception to my tirad against one George "Whacko" Bush, Jr. and Rinnie "the Chin" Cheney. This isn't a Republican t'hang, no more than Nixon's dirty tricks. I didn't hate the Republicans then; however, I did have heat-on with Bush. I don't hate him, only what he did. I hated what Nixon and Agnew did to this country, to his own party, to every American. I honestly believe that Republicans don't want to believe that a president -- ANY PRESIDENT, is capable of lying and deceiving his own constituents, not to mention the country, the world. I can dig that.
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