Saturday Politics Thread: Shankapatomas [Y-not]

What can I say?

I punted.

I had the best intentions. I DVRed the debates and everything! But Life had other plans.

An outfit called Echelon Insights tweeted post-debate reactions and polling. According to their poll of Likely Republican primary voters who watched the debate, Donald Trump won.

Echelon Insights also generated word clouds from respondents who thought a given candidate "won" the debate.

Here's the one from supporters of Ben Carson:

Here's the one based on people who thought Ted Cruz won:

And here's the one from fans of Donald Trump:

Finally, here's an ideology map based on how each candidate's supporters self-identified:

In case you're thinking the debate season has started too soon, you might have forgotten that last time the first debate was in May.

Related: here's a link to the Presidential primary calendar via Frontloading HQ.

**UPDATE**
Link to the GOP Debate schedule. Next debate:

Wednesday, September 16, 2015 CNN/Salem Republican Debate Aired On: CNN and Salem Radio (Press Release) Location: Reagan Library in Simi Valley, CA Sponsors: Reagan Library Foundation, CNN, Salem Media Group Moderators: Jake Tapper, Hugh Hewitt, Rules: Split field into Segment B (top 10 candidates) and Segment A (remaining candidates getting at least 1% in polls) (Details) Candidates: To be determined

Open thread because, face it, there isn't enough content here to hold you to a specific topic!

posted by Open Blogger at 08:15 AM

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