NBC analysis of Facebook and twitter posts about debate

[stevenleser]

Shows that there is overwhelming grassroots consensus that Romney only appeared to win the debate because of a torrent of lies.

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/05/14244918-social-media-analysis-who-really-won-the-debate


The immediate consensus that Mitt Romney won Wednesday's presidential debate has eroded significantly as fact-checkers have weighed in and supporters of President Barack Obama have fought back, according to NBCPolitics' computer-assisted analysis of more than 1.3 million post-debate comments on social media.
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This article is a must read and shows how we can all have an effect if we are determined to get the facts out.

Keep on pushin' !!!!

[DisabledAmerican]

1. Awww and they told us we were wrong in our reality of things

Amazing how things change. Our reality of facts didn't match ours is what they kept telling us and now look.

[Indpndnt]

6. Sadly, some here are still telling us that.

But speaking up definitely makes a difference!

[Cha]

11. We're "spinning" and

their opinion is right.

Yeah, spinning this thing right into a different reality where mitt Loses 'cause he freaking LIED his way through the debate Except when He Threatened Big Bird! Who Does That?!

[Indpndnt]

15. And if we don't agree with them, we're suddenly demanding 100% agreement.

There are no words.

Once Willard started lying and then threatened Big Bird, I knew the post-debate blowback was what mattered. I smiled every second after he 'fired' Big Bird and Lehrer.

[Cha]

16. I bet you did!

"I smiled every second after he 'fired' Big Bird and Lehrer"

Smart you.

[backscatter712]

2. Like I said, nobody likes a bullying asshole.

On top of being a lying sack of shit, he was bullying the hell out of Jim Lehrer, and bullying Obama. I'm now more convinced that Obama was simply rope-a-doping him and baiting him into losing his shit, and well, that strategy worked - the entire nation got to see Mitt Romney's inner asshole.

[gkhouston]

4. Bullying Lehrer was a huge mistake.

His pugnacious attitude toward Obama could be dismissed as "competitiveness" by some, but Lehrer should have been treated as a neutral, not an enemy.

[Cha]

14. "... but Lehrer should have been treated as a neutral, not an enemy."

Exactly.. shows when Mitt gets on a Bully Tear..it doesn't matter who's in the path.

[Cha]

13. Mitt f****** Bullied Big Bird.. again, I

ask.. who in their right mind Does That?!



http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1487311

[xfundy]

3. Cons don't care "how" they win, just that they win.

It's as if they're watching sports and rooting for the home team while sitting on the couch making a mess with junk food and beer combined into spittle. If they can say, "WE WON!" it somehow gives them a reason for living, and apparently makes them believe they were somehow "in the fight."

Guess how many "true christians™," which is supposedly the soul of the cancervatives, really care that rMoney LIED his way to "win" the debate? None, just as they didn't care that bush lied constantly, including lying his way into wars that killed at least as many children of conservatives as killed children of liberals.

It's sick, it's twisted.

[Historic NY]

5. Nobody likes a bully especially Big Bird.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. What?

You mean the punditocracy was wrong?

[stevenleser]

8. Some of us were, but not me. I predicted this!

[ginnyinWI]

9. lol! best reply I've read today. n/t

[Cha]

10. Wed night post debate.. there were cooler heads

who wrote that the winner of this debate might take 3 or 4 days to come out..maybe longer. It's so good to see reports like this, Steven.. Thank you!

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By Friday morning, the counterargument that Obama had actually won on substance had taken root, with online sentiment now favoring the president:




Social Media Smarter than gops ever thought Possible..and they VOTE!

[Brewinblue]

12. Wow!

We actually beat them at the spin game. And grass roots style to boot.


This really ain't your father's Democratic party.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

17. My 70-some year old grandma and grandpa:

"He just got up there and lied."

[bushisanidiot]

18. NBC is realizing their instant reaction after the debate was very, very wrong.

Romneys poll numbers will continue to slide as voters realize mitt lied his way through the entire debate.

[intheflow]

19. I was saying this two hours after the debate.

The "Romney wants to kill Big Bird" meme spread like wildfire on fb. An idiot could see that was not a good portent for Rmoney, and certainly wasn't indicative of a win on his part. That he failed with the fact-checkers is just icing on the cake.