One Thought About The Day-AFter Analysis Of The Debate

CNN and CBS have been hyping their slanted snap polls in an effort to shape opinion a day out of the debate. Here is why the meme setting and "analysis" of snap polls is so critical, and must be fought, courtesy of Jeffrey Toobin:

JEFFREY TOOBIN: What is significant, I think, about these polls is there tends to be a multiplier effect when these -- about these debates. That, initially, people aren't quite sure, but once one side is established as the winner, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy....It is very important, I think, that the first objective analysis -- you know, not from us, but from polls, and I think it's consistent across the networks -- all show Obama winning.

I already see two memes being established:
1) Obama tied, so he won.
2) McCain was "disdainful", with comparisons to Gore in 2000.

This needs to be pushed back, because too many people didn't watch the raw footage of the debates, instead relying upon what the Deciders are telling them they saw.

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