CBS / WFOR - Presidential Debate (post-debate) - 2004-09-30 - 3 of 5

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[1:23] President Bush and Senator Kerry were

[1:25] hoping tonight to win over some of the

[1:26] uncommitted voters. Did they? CBS News

[1:29] assembled a nationwide panel of fence

[1:32] setitting voters. And as they watched

[1:34] the face off tonight, we at CBS News

[1:36] monitored electronically their

[1:38] reactions. CBS News correspondent

[1:40] Anthony Mason joins us now with the

[1:42] results of this quick poll, if you will.

[1:45] Anthony.

[1:45] >> Dan, this was an Insta poll. Literally,

[1:47] we asked our 200 respondents right after

[1:50] the debate was over to tell us who they

[1:51] thought won. There was a very strong

[1:53] conclusion from this debate, as you'll

[1:55] see when we go to the boards right now.

[1:57] 44% said they thought John Kerry won

[1:59] this debate. 26% said George Bush did a

[2:02] tie 30%. Throughout this debate, Dan, um

[2:06] we've been monitoring the reaction of

[2:07] these 200 fence sitters. Um these are

[2:10] voters from across the country. We

[2:11] watched them moment by moment. They

[2:13] watched the debate on web TV and

[2:14] registered their approval or disapproval

[2:17] on a sliding scale. This was a

[2:19] nationally representative survey of

[2:21] uncommitted before the debate. 70% of

[2:23] these people said to us they felt the

[2:25] country was on the wrong track, but only

[2:27] 14% said they had a favorable opinion of

[2:29] John Kerry. John Ky appeared to score

[2:32] the highest ratings tonight when he

[2:33] described his plans for Iraq. Now watch

[2:35] the meter move up here.

[2:38] We need to be smarter about how we wage

[2:41] a war on terror. We need to deny them

[2:43] the recruits. We need to deny them the

[2:45] safe havens. We need to rebuild our

[2:47] alliances.

[2:50] >> Now, that two reading on the meter you

[2:51] saw there was about as high as anybody

[2:53] got tonight. Now, moments later, after

[2:54] Kerry spoke, when President Bush

[2:56] responded, the meter abruptly dropped,

[2:58] and the average response from our

[3:00] uncommitteds actually briefly went

[3:02] negative. Watch.

[3:04] >> I decided the right action was in Iraq.

[3:07] My opponent calls it a mistake. It

[3:09] wasn't a mistake. He said I misled on

[3:11] Iraq. I don't think he was misleading

[3:13] when he called Iraq a grave threat in

[3:14] the fall of 2002.

[3:16] >> Now, President Bush did score with our

[3:18] panel of fence hitters when he talked

[3:20] about a free Iraq. Watch this.

[3:22] >> An enemy realizes the stakes.

[3:25] The enemy understands a free Iraq will

[3:28] be a major defeat

[3:30] in their ideology of hatred.

[3:33] That's why they're fighting so

[3:34] viciferously.

[3:36] Now, John Kerry was concerned going into

[3:38] this debate that he portray he have a

[3:40] plan about Iraq. From our uncommitted

[3:42] voters, he has scored well. Right now,

[3:45] 51% of those voters have told us, and

[3:47] these are uncommitted voters again in a

[3:49] sample across the country, 200, we have

[3:51] a margin of error of plus or six or

[3:53] seven points, plus or minus. But John Ky

[3:55] got a 51% score here on having a clear

[3:58] plan for Iraq. George Bush just 38%. Now

[4:01] we asked these same group, has your

[4:03] opinion of John Kerry changed? 52% said

[4:06] their opinion of John Kerry had

[4:08] improved. It had changed for the better.

[4:10] 14% said it got worse. 35% no change at

[4:14] all. Throughout the night, this meter

[4:16] Dan showed that overall John Kerry was

[4:19] scoring better than George Bush and he

[4:21] was scoring even better among women. The

[4:23] ratings from women were stronger than

[4:24] men. But pretty clearly among these

[4:27] uncommitteds, again a sample of 200

[4:29] voters across the country, a

[4:31] representative national sample, this

[4:32] debate went to John Kerry.

[4:34] >> Anthony Mason, thanks. Bob Schiffer,

[4:36] this is an unscientific poll, 200

[4:38] people, it may or may not be, but if it

[4:41] turns out tomorrow that a wider sampling

[4:43] shows that Senator Kerry scored better

[4:46] than George Bush, what are the chances

[4:49] of making any real difference in the

[4:50] race?

[4:51] >> Well, it will keep John Kerry in the

[4:53] race. I think you'd have to say that and

[4:56] we don't know uh I don't know what to

[4:58] make of these poll numbers when I look

[4:59] at them. But if in fact uh this poll uh

[5:03] is correct, then John Kerry has

[5:05] accomplished something that was one of

[5:07] his major goals and that was people

[5:09] simply didn't know where he stood on

[5:12] Iraq. People simply didn't know what his

[5:15] positions were on some of these key

[5:17] issues. If this poll is right, he got it

[5:19] across tonight what he believes about

[5:22] Iraq and people seem to like what he had

[5:24] to say.

[5:24] >> Bob Schiffer, CBS News coverage of the

[5:26] first presidential showdown of

[5:28] Campaign04 will continue in just a

[5:30] moment.

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