Live Polling of Undecideds During Debate

Here's rolling coverage of the live chart that 6-ABC in Pennsylvania is airing of undecided voters' ratings of the candidates during the debate.  For live video, paste this in Windows Media Player.

A lot of the numbers are just a reflection of how much uninterrupted time a candidate gets, as the chart tends to float upward gradually. Most of the 60s are shorter answers. Also, Clinton is doing a good job of pivoting from the controversial questions to crowd-pleasing issues, and gets high scores when she does.

The final "Who won?" question is Clinton: 50, Obama: 23. They asked Clinton's Ed Rendell who won, and he first said ABC sucked, then that Clinton was far and away the best.

Picking the other as veep:

Obama's high: 65%
Clinton's high: 65%

Bittergate:

O: 67
C: 69

Obama's electability:

C: 72 (on and after "Yes, yes, yes.")
O: 75 (on "Clinton learned the wrong lessons" on baking-cookies-gate)
C: 65 (in response)

Pastor-gate:

O: 68
C: 69
O: Low of 47, high of 67
O (on further questioning): 62
C: 61

Clinton's credibility:

C: Low of 38, high of 51
O: 77

Flagpin-gate:

O: 73
O: 77 (on further questioning)
C: 63 (on response to question), 80+ (off chart on "Republicans shouldn't run anyone")
O: 70

Bringing troops home:

C: 74
C (on further questioning): 79
O: 72
O (on further questioning): 68
C: 77

Raising taxes:

McCain (via tape): 48
C: 78
O: 76

Capital gains taxes:

O: 73
O (on further questioning): 67
C: 76
C (on further questioning): 70
O: 67

Social Security:

C: 79
O: 64 (brief)
C: 62 (brief)

Gun control:
C: 74
O: 65
C: 64
C (on further questioning): 60
C (on further questioning): 64

Affirmative Action:

O: 66
C: 79

Gas prices:

C: 80+ (off chart)
O: 71

Using GWB in their administration:

C: 68
O: 71

Convince supers that you're more electable:

C: 72
O: 68

•  please keep updating.

  thank you for this

  by notquitedelilah on Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 05:48:48 PM PDT

  •  Will do!

    by Michael D on Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 05:51:13 PM PDT

•  Is there a link to these live audience reponse

  graphs?

  by HoundDog on Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 05:49:01 PM PDT

  •  here's the link - it is so cool

    http://a.abclocal.go.com/...

    by Statusquomustgo on Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 05:50:53 PM PDT

  •  Good suggestion!

    I pasted the link in the diary. It's a direct video link. Put this in Windows Media Player.

    by Michael D on Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 05:53:00 PM PDT

•  thanks

  for the link, I can mute the moderators!

  by SuperNatius on Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 06:06:33 PM PDT

•  great diary!

  by Oothoon on Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 06:08:50 PM PDT

•  she's

  kicking ass here.  shit

  by hn on Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 06:36:32 PM PDT

  •  It's not that big a difference

    But I do think Obama sounds a bit low-energy, and his chart kind of stalls at times.

    by Michael D on Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 06:43:45 PM PDT

  •  Missed Moments

    I think Obama missed a key moment when Clinton said you can't pick your family, but you can pick your pastor. To Obama, your church is family. Clinton doesn't seem to think as highly of her church.

    by Michael D on Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 06:56:05 PM PDT

•  Different styles

  She's more rat a tat, point, point point.  
  He's more low key in personality, and that comes across in his answers.  She is a better debater, but he's nipping at her heels.

  by bigforkgirl on Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 06:45:43 PM PDT

  •  she was fed the qs in advance.

    that's why she never needs to pause for so much as a breath, and in fact interrupts her questioner before he's finished asking the question.

    by khereva on Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 07:15:15 PM PDT

•  I like the IRL...

  how many people like the other to be Veep...outside the DKos blogasphere...

  by dvogel001 on Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 06:48:17 PM PDT

•  This is PA; people lean Hillary anyway

  This was pretty much a wash.

  Worst. Debate. Ever.

  I never thought I would learn to appreciate Tim Russert. Charlie Gibson is the biggest fucking asshat.

  by Oothoon on Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 06:58:03 PM PDT

  •  The questions were pretty awful, yeah.

    Question after question was scandal-of-the-day rehash, not stuff that voters say matters.

    by Michael D on Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 07:00:02 PM PDT

•  I'm soooo sorry to say but this was the worst

  debate I have ever seen. It was an ambush of Obama.

  It was set up in the uncomfortable standing position ( which Obama does not favor) of a traditional debate yet the questioning was done in interview form with different questions posed to each candidate.

  The question were utterly biased. All Obama controversies brought up yet Clinton's Nafta and Columbia scandals not mentioned at all.

  Interviewers kept interrupting Obama's answers and debating him, no such thing for Clinton.

  It was absolutely a hi job and a trap set up for Obama.

  by notquitedelilah on Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 06:59:34 PM PDT

•  These results are not bad

  Obama weathered the bad part and Clinton did better when she got more populist questions. But no significant differences.

  by Fairy Tale on Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 07:08:19 PM PDT

•  agree the results are good

  I could not believe the bias of this debate either.  I am upset also.   God Keith has on Pat Buchanon.  Let me guess what he'll say!!! Keith....Pat?  

  by kansasgal on Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 07:34:18 PM PDT

•  Interesting numbers.

  Thanks for this.

  by Pym on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 05:58:19 AM PDT