Gallup Post-Debate Poll: Romney Gets 52-Point Edge Over Hapless Obama

[bijou]

Honestly, I’d love to know what the 20% who thought Obama won were watching. Who in their right mind can says Obama won after falling on his face?

    A new poll finds that an overwhelming majority of Americans who viewed last week’s presidential debate, believe Mitt Romney won, propelling the GOP nominee into a tie with President Obama

    A new Gallup poll released Monday shows that 72 percent of debate watchers picked Romney as the winner of the Wednesday face-off in Denver, Colo. Twenty percent picked Obama.

    Gallup said the 52-point edge for Romney was the largest winning margin measured by the polling firm for a debate. The prior largest winning-margin was for Bill Clinton in the 1992 town hall debate with President George H. W. Bush. Clinton held a 42-point edge in that post-debate survey.

    Romney also was pegged as the debate winner by independents, by 70 to 19 percent and even by Democrats who said his performance topped Obama’s by 49 percent to 39.  ...

http://www.jammiewf.com/2012/gallup-post-debate-poll-romney-gets-52-point-edge-over-hapless-obama/

[Zeus]

This is the largest margin of victory for any candidate since CNN's post-debate poll was first started in 1984.

CNN POLL: Romney Annihilates Obama

Denver, Colorado (CNN) – Two-thirds of people who watched the first presidential debate think that Republican nominee Mitt Romney won the showdown, according to a nationwide poll conducted Wednesday night.

According to a CNN/ORC International survey conducted right after the debate, 67% of debate watchers questioned said that the Republican nominee won the faceoff, with one in four saying that President Barack Obama was victorious.

"No presidential candidate has topped 60% in that question since it was first asked in 1984," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.