CNN Plays Games With Your Head During the Debates

I thought the reason for the audience promising to not react was to short curcuit any grand standing on a certain point by either participant.
I guess as long as the speakers themselves can NOT see the graphs it just delays the info from getting to the campaign honchos where they just repackage their message to fit the ratings they got on certain points.
I don't have HD TV so didn't see all that CNN offered onscreen.

Yes and when McCain talked about Bill Ayres all readings hit the floor, which is borne out in the national polling. I do not believe, given the issues and state of the nation and world, that a few squiggly lines will shape the election to anyones favor.

I heard that there is a plot to disparage one candidate over the other, by promoting the idea that there are people out there doing unscupulous things in order to disparage one candidate over the other.

hmmm.

I never noticed the squiggly lines myself. :-) But I do know that there are many people who will merely follow the crowd. And I'm sure they are influenced by these graphs if they watch them and also by the stupid news people who have to give their own opinions.

The polls are always amazing to me. I know there is a vocal group of Obama fans here, but in real life I don't personally know any - not in my neighborhood, in friends I've known in PA, TX and FL, and in my relatives. Even my athiest cousin favors McCain over Obama. You know why? Obama's stand on abortion. :-)

The same goes with me. Everyone I know is voting for McCain and none of us have been polled by all of these polls. A lot of people are also in favor of McCain because of the stand Obama has on abortion. I talked to a woman on the bus the other day who looked like a hippie though she had to be in her late 50's at least. I hesitantly brought up McCain/Obama and she brought up abortion. Because of the way she looked, I expected her to be in favor of abortion but I was wrong. She is firmly against it and will be voting accordingly. Also, I persuaded someone today who wasn't even going to vote to vote for McCain. So, we have one more on our side and I got an email a few minutes ago that says the numbers are closing between the two candidates. McCain is gaining. Some of it may have had to do with Sarah Palin's appearance on Saturday Night Live. Whatever it takes is fine with me.

paying it forward!