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Presidential Debate Thread - Obama vs. Romney (5 Viewers)

Who wins the XBOX vote?

Xbox aims to reinvent debates (and TV) with live polling

The first debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama on Wednesday will be a milestone in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election, but Microsoft’s Xbox Live team hopes it will also be viewed as a watershed moment for interactive television.

Microsoft is rolling out an interactive polling feature that will let people viewing the debate on Xbox Live answer questions and see poll results in real time on the screen. The company tested the technology during the Republican and Democratic conventions.

Executives hope that the high-profile use of the system during the debates will be a first step toward making television more interactive in general.

“This is the future of TV,” said Jose Pinero, a senior director with Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business. “This technology and this platform, we can apply to any kind of live TV or video content. Think about real-time live TV, live events — anyplace where we want audience participation, in real-time. We’re going to continue using it and bringing it to more and more experiences.”

It’s part of an Election 2012 portal on Xbox Live that Microsoft introduced in August. Microsoft will use the technology for all three presidential debates, and the vice presidential debate.

Poll questions and results will appear as an overlay on the bottom of the screen, letting people vote with their Xbox 360 controllers or using gestures with the company’s Kinect sensor. An editorial team at Microsoft has been working on questions related to the expected topics of the debate, but they will also have the ability to adjust on the fly depending on what happens during the debate.

The company will also be taking suggested questions from viewers via Twitter.

Microsoft says it sees the interactive polling technology, combined with live television, as an advance over the real-time focus groups that television networks have used for debates and speeches in the past. For one thing, the technology offers the ability to involve a much wider swath of viewers.

In addition, Microsoft sees the approach as an improvement over traditional telephone polling, which has become tougher as people have become more difficult to reach.

Microsoft has been conducting daily polls on Xbox Live and collecting demographic information to help generalize the results of the Xbox Live polling to the broader population. The company plans to start making results of the polls available to the media.

Pinero says that Microsoft won’t use the data it collects through the polls to target ads to users.

Through its polling, Microsoft has determined that a large portion of Xbox Live users are undecided. Here’s a graphic that the company put together describing what it calls the “Xbox Swing Voter.”
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I'm tired of the over barring phone calls every day from each candidate's campaign party. :thumbdown:

 
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'wazoo11 said:
I'm tired of the over barring phone calls every day from each candidate's campaign party. :thumbdown:
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Congrats - your vote actually matters!I get zero calls from national level candidates where I am - because my vote just gets lost in the noise.
 
'Arsenal of Doom said:
'Ignoratio Elenchi said:
'Gr00vus said:
'wazoo11 said:
I'm tired of the over barring phone calls every day from each candidate's campaign party. :thumbdown:
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Congrats - your vote actually matters!I get zero calls from national level candidates where I am - because my vote just gets lost in the noise.
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:goodposting: Never gotten one of these calls in my life.
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Neither of you are missing anything. It gets old fast.
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I get plenty of local election ones.
 
Zero calls here in SF, they would elect Karl Marx if he was on the ballot.

 
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'NCCommish said:
Not sure if I'll watch. We already know Mitt has some prepared "zingers" IMO these will make the base happy but turn off everyone else. Especially now that it's known he has been practicing them for two months. In fact if he does use one I am leaning toward it biting him in the butt over the long haul. We also know Romney's handlers have been trying to teach him empathy. So again being revealed before the debate deflates it's effectiveness.

Obama is truly not that good in debate settings. I expect him to have a very safe debate. He is leading, he is the incumbent, no reason to take chances or get off script. We won't see Obama get into it until the Town Hall where he does really well and Mitt not so much. Still even that will be sanitized of as many possible unscripted moments as they can squeeze out.

So I am tepid on the whole thing. I am looking forward to Biden and Ryan though. There might actually be some fun to be had there. Between Joe's gaffes and Ryan's thin skin there could certainly be some moments.
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Teaching "empathy" to Mitt is like teaching Obama how to spend money. Mitt's empathy isn't up for debate and shouldn't even be in the conversation. Mitt is a deeply religious man who went on a years long service to Europe and donates many hours of his own time each year to church & congregation, without being paid. There are many people who have come forward to tell their story about Mitt's empathy. It's just the "unbiased" MSM refuses to air them and rather attack Mitt on bogus claims and supposed gaffes, designed to distract people from the economy & portray Mitt as out of touch.There were two stories told at the RNC. There were stories uncovered by Glenn Beck (utube Glenn Beck & "Who is Mitt Romney"). How about the story about Mitt shutting down Bain Capital and paying to have everyone go to New York to locate and find a coworker's missing daughter. How about when he paid for the Boston VA hospital's milk money for two years, anonymously. Like Ann mentioned in her RNC speech, Mitt goes out of his way to keep them quiet Because he considers his time for service & his donations a privilege. These are only some of the stories.

He also donated his father's entire inheritance to BYU, and his entire Olympics salary/severance. As Mass Governor he donated his entire salary and his own money to start & fund the Abigail Adams Scholarship. It gives free state school tuition to top 25% of students in each Mass school. He's on record for saying he will donate his entire Presidential salary if elected. He voluntarily turned down enrolling in Medicare when he turned 65 on March 12, 2012, and chose NOT to receive any Social Security payments. He knows he can take care of himself and therefore shouldn't rely on our tax dollars to help fund his daily living. He's dedicated his life to his family, this country and it's people. It's part of his belief system & principles.

In fact, Mitt can be too nice of a guy and needs to start putting on the gloves. In fact, I would like to see LESS empathy from Mitt. If anyone needs empathy lessons...it's Obama. The fact that Dinesh D'Souza (2016 movie) had to give $1k to Obama's nephew for surgery is proof of that. Perhaps his estranged aunt & uncle living on the streets of America might agree with me. However, I'm sure that Ayers, Rev. Wright, & the Muslim Brotherhood are just fine with Obama's lack of empathy. Like the polls in this country, many on the left don't know the Real Mitt or the real fake Obama.
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Hook, line, and sinker.
 
When all of those people asked for Romney's help, did he tell them that they are 47 percent and should stop asking for government help

 
always striking to me the way the CNN squiggles go up when candidates offer lofty platitudes, how they plummet when then say mean things about each other, and how confused they seem on the rare occasions when actual policy positions are discussed

 
Never post in political threads and consider myself a true undecided voter here. So will be unbiased with my liveblogging...

Romney really caught my attention with the 5 points plan in his opening statement. Very well put.

 
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So I don't know who this moderator is but he seems like he was just roused from a nap and put in front of these two goobers.

 
Obama sounds like he has no Ida how to create jobs. I'm pretty surprised he wasn't better prepared for that question.

 
What the #### kind of debate is this? Candidates talking directly to each other? Asking each other questions? Why even have a ####### moderator? OOF

 
'The_Man said:
always striking to me the way the CNN squiggles go up when candidates offer lofty platitudes, how they plummet when then say mean things about each other, and how confused they seem on the rare occasions when actual policy positions are discussed
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Far more interesting is the divergence between men and women. Men start jerking off when Romney talks about tax cuts. Women get hot & bothered when anyone talks about education. Anytime technical discussions start, both groups snooze.
 
I love Romney stealing dummy Biden's comment about the middle class being buried and using it against Obama. :lmao:

 
Romney a lot more direct so far. With actual "here's what needs to change".

I hope Obama gets a bit more direct and specific too.

:popcorn:

 
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