Kinect for Xbox One coming to PC
Xbox One does not provide any built-in DVR capabilities
Xbox One increases friends lists to 1,000
Xbox One achievements dynamic, not limited to single games
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.
Comments
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
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 115 replies.
1) The government's job is to fulfill it's constitutional duties and their electoral mandate. Obama was indeed elected in part to invest in new technology and spur future economic growth. The federal government has been intimately involved in research and development for almost a century now. See NASA, DARPA, etc. The stimulus included loans to all kinds of private businesses. One of those included Solyndra, a relatively small investment, which went bad because of faulty businesses practices and China's massive subsidies of solar panels. Let's try not to miss the forest for the trees. The vast majority of the loans were successful. The CBO estimates the stimulus saved or created 3 million jobs, which wasn't as much as was promised, but was enough to be an overall net positive for the country (at least according the majority of economists who studied the subject).
2) Again, it's not meaningless. You're being completely insensitive to men and women in the armed forces who were forced to keep their sexuality secret and no longer have to. Now I'm not sure what you're saying. Are you saying they shouldn't serve in the military? If that is the case, I wholeheartedly disagree.
3) Politics is a series of small steps. You're not going to get Russia and the U.S. to dismantle their entire nuclear stockpiles over night. START is just another step along the process to eventual disarmament. It's a pretty large reduction too. Twenty or thirty years from now, we may see a situation where there is no longer mutually assured destruction. Anyway, even a small reduction reduces the likelihood of a nuclear weapon getting into the hands of terrorists.
4) Iran isn't going to attack Israel with a nuclear weapon. The government of Iran, like all autocractic regimes, are motivated by self-preservation. An attack on Israel would result in Tehran getting leveled to dust. There's no way that scenario ends well for Iran. I agree that Obama could initiate military action on Iran and is choosing not to. Wisely so, I will add. An attack on Iran would be difficult and would not prevent them from developing nuclear weapons. Ronald Reagan tried to stop Pakistan from getting a nuke, just as Bill Clinton tried to stop North Korea. Both men failed, but the world did not end. India and Pakistan have not blown each other up. South Korea has not been attacked. Life goes on.
5) The Taliban knows they can wait us out anyway. The Mujahideen waited out the USSR and they can do it again. There was a time table for withdrawal set in Iraq too, if you recall. Yet the surge there was successful, largely because we were able to buy the loyalty of the Sunnis. The Taliban have not shown a willingness to negotiate, which is the only way the conflict will end.
6) The Affordable Care Act does /not raise taxes on the middle class. That's completely false. The plan's revenue mostly comes from high-income Americans, health insurance companies, and excise taxes on unnecessary procedures.
7) Obama has not raised taxes on the middle class. Quite the opposite - he's cut them. He extended the Bush tax cuts and included tax reductions in the stimulus. 1/3 of the stimulus was tax cuts.
8) The Affordable Care Act absolutely takes important steps to reduce the cost of health care. By adding 30 million Americans to the health insurance pool, overall costs will go down because there will be less emergency room visits. The plan also ends fee for service payments in Medicare, which are a huge part of the rising cost of care. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/05/moving-away-from-fee-for-service/256755/ Pelosi's comment was dumb. I won't defend her. But we know what's in the plan, so that's a non-issue.
9) You say the deficit is a problem and then get upset about cuts to Medicare. Guess what? Medicare is the largest culprit in our deficit. If you want to reduce the deficit, you need to tackle entitlements. The ACA makes cuts to Medicare that don't affect patient care and help preserve the overall fiscal health of the program.
10) Your assertion that Obama doesn't work hard is ridiculous, sorry. As much as I hated Bush, I never claimed that he didn't work hard.
You must be logged in to post.