Fifty percent of uncommitted voters who tuned into Thursday night’s vice presidential debate in Danville, Ky., said they see Vice President Joe Biden as the winner over Mitt Romney’s GOP running mate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., according to an instant poll taken by CBS News. Of the 431 polled immediately […] Read more »
CNN Poll on debate winner: Ryan 48%, Biden 44%
A CNN poll of debate watchers released following Thursday’s matchup between Rep. Paul Ryan and Vice President Joe Biden showed 48% of respondents named Ryan the winner and 44% said Biden won. The margin between the two candidates was within the poll’s five point sampling error. A poll taken immediately […] Read more »
Pre-Debate, Biden, Ryan Share Lackluster Favorable Ratings
Americans view Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan similarly heading into Thursday’s vice presidential debate, with 44% viewing Biden and 43% viewing Ryan favorably. … At 44%, Biden has the lowest pre-debate favorable rating of any Democratic vice presidential candidate of the past six elections. […] Read more »
What to expect from vice presidential debates
Thursday night, Paul Ryan and Joe Biden will engage in rhetorical combat. To political junkies and poll-watchers, it seems like there is a lot riding on the outcome of this particular vice presidential debate. Hopes are high among supporters of both tickets, but what kind of impact can we reasonably […] Read more »
Vice Presidential Debates Rarely Influence Voters
The chances that Thursday’s vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan will have a major impact on the 2012 presidential race are small, according to an analysis of Gallup trends. None of the eight vice presidential debates occurring from 1976 to 2008 appears to have meaningfully altered voter […] Read more »
‘47%’ Was Bad for Romney; Ryan Has Been Deadly
The conventional wisdom on Obama’s recent surge is that it’s due largely to Mitt Romney’s 47% disaster, and there’s clearly something to this. … But it’s worth pointing out another dynamic that’s been overlooked here: The escalating disaster that is Paul Ryan. [cont.] Noam Scheiber, New Republic Read more »