Not just among voters either, but we’ll get to that shortly. First off, Frank Luntz and CNN competed with the Washington Post to conduct focus-group testing on last night’s VP debate, claiming to have balanced their samples and focused on undecided swing-state voters to get their reaction to the debate, and its influence on their voting decision.
Let’s start with the Post’s group of 23 voters, only two of whom were ostensibly uncommitted entirely. Nine leaned toward Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, while 12 leaned toward Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. By the end of the debate, the numbers only changed slightly to nine and 13, respectively, as Vance won the only real convert among them. But they overwhelmingly agreed that Vance won the debate itself, 14-8:
They thought Vance performed better, regardless of how they plan to vote in November. …
Among the 12 voters who leaned toward former…
