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Romney wins first presidential debate on Xbox Live
by Steve Watts, Oct 05, 2012 9:30am PDTWhether for the interest in politics or just wanting free Avatar armor, the Xbox Live airing of the presidential debates drew in plenty of users. Microsoft has revealed a few statistics from its live polls, and just as the reaction from pundits and politicos, Romney came out on top.
IGN reports that 11% of the voters identified themselves as undecided, and 17% said they were leaning toward President Obama or Republican candidate Mitt Romney. In 9 out of 10 questions, Romney exceeded his baseline of support, while Obama suffered the inverse with 8 out of 10 questions losing support. 88% of respondents said they are "likely voters" and 69% said they will "definitely talk" to people about the election. Microsoft said that the daily polls have attracted roughly 10,000 users, and that the debate polls "far exceeded this number."
Three more debates are set for this presidential election, all of which will be similarly streamed on Xbox Live. The vice presidential candidates take the stage on October 11. The presidential candidates will spar town hall-style over foreign and domestic policy on October 16, and then discuss foreign policy alone on October 22.
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Microsoft has released live poll stats from its first streamed presidential debate, and says Romney came out gaining support.
Microsoft has released live poll stats from its first streamed presidential debate, and says Romney came out gaining support. : Shacknews
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Billions in new technology? I wasn't aware that was the governments job to create new industry and how did that work out for many of those companies? Solyndra was certainly a bad investment.
Being in the military and being in prior to the removal of DADT and post removal of DADT I've seen zero difference. You can openly say you're gay but again you get no benefits at all. Meaningless. I personally have no problem with someone whom is gay or straight sexuality has zero place in the military period. I also don't think it's the governments job to determine if you can get married if you're gay or not... yet I don't see any push to open that door. So while DADT may seem oh so great all it does is allow you to be an openly gay second class citizen. You're better off not even coming out (which in my experience) is what most gays in the military are doing... not coming out.
Removing 1/3 of the weapons stockpiles is meaningless. We can destroy the world several times over still with 1/3 the weapons. So what's the difference besides a # on a piece of paper? If nuclear war were to erupt between the two it still has the same plausible outcome despite a reduction in nuclear weapons.
We are preventing Israel, whom would be most likely to suffer a nuclear strike, if Iran developed a nuclear weapon from striking Iran. Also it is odd that you state we aren't at war with Iran because #1 that hasn't stopped Obama from taking military action without Congress' approval and #2 according to the DOD we are at war with Iran per their rules, as they have recently declared cyber attacks constitute acts of war..Stuxnet was one of the attacks.
The surge in Afghan was not good enough, especially when the President announced when the surge would be over before they ever got there. Brilliant military strategy. We are fighting an enemy that knows they simply have to wait out the Americans because we have told everyone when we are going to leave.
Tax cuts for the middle class... Obama openly wanted to end Bush era tax cuts. Also Obamacare leads to more taxes on the middle class which I have already pointed out.
No the criticisms make perfect sense if one does actually understand what the Federal Government's job is supposed to be. Defending Obama as a champion of the middle class while he raises taxes on them and imposes new taxes? You have shown that you write off $25 million dollars as nothing... no wonder we are 16 trillion in debt with that sort of rationale. Obamacare is supposed to take on insurance companies and does make improvements in some areas however it doesn't do anything to fix the problem which is the cost of care which was the whole point of Obamacare. How ironic is it that the affordable health care act comes with a penalty if you don't have insurance. You're literally been fed to the insurance companies. Nancy Pelosi even said that they have to PASS the bill so we can find out what's in it. Yikes.
Read your own article it openly cites some of the taxes to come with Obamacare... openly cites taking funding from Medicare... taxing medical manufacturers and importers of name brand drugs... I bet that's going to make the cost of health care cheaper right? Most businesses pass the costs to the consumer.
So for the most part, no Obama can't do anything right. When he finally does he is too quick to spike the football to actually make something out of it. In my opinion he should stop skipping intel briefings and start acting like the POTUS. He has time for the view, hanging with Katy Perry, partying with Jay-Z yet he doesn't have time to prepare for a debate, meet with foreign leaders, etc? Give me a break.
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