jillio
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I heard a CNN pundent describe how the dials worked before the debate. I wish I could have seen that for myself. I would have been curious to see how the target audience was responding to Palin.
Well, from the targets in our area, when Biden was speaking, the dials would stay at the baseline when he first started speaking, and then gradually max out as his points were made, as if people were listening and agreeing as he went along. With Palin, she would start to speak, the dials would go up, and then quickly drop back down into the negative, and then spike back up alittle over the midline, then drop back down. It showed that people would start to approve of what she was saying, but the more she talked, the less they approved. Biden maintained a consistent approval rating.