Thursday, August 24, 2023

Winners and Losers

Data crunching site Five-Thirty-Eight has done a post-debate survey of how the participants did, as reported by viewers. Power Line's Steven Hayward has the charts posted with brief commentary. 

In the first chart respondents were asked to pick the overall winner and the biggest loser, the number of winner choices in red, loser choices in yellow. DeSantis and Ramaswamy were the big winners.


In the second chart, we see how much each debater gained or lost as a result of the debate. The length of line reflects the change from before to after. The big winner is Haley. Note, the only one whose line goes negative is Donald Trump. Why Hurd and Suarez are included is unclear as they did not debate.