First Post- choice posting: How attitudes in presidential debates can influence the election

            Hey, I was reading some new articles on the news this afternoon and found a lot of authors writing about the effects of the second presidential debates towards changing polls. Specifically, I found an article from a website known as the varsity that commented on the change in specifically President Obama's attitude in the second debate, which was more aggressive than it was in the first debate.

            So, the first thing I noted about this reading was that the American public does pay attention to presidential debates. A majority of the article titles I was looking through were doing nothing but commenting on Obama's and Mitt Romney's performance as well as their content. Every article analyzed everything they said, from Energy all the way to education policies. A majority of the topics were introduced from the audience, composed of American citizens, in the area where the debate occurred.

           Also, the second thing I noted was that debates have the chance to swing election poll results. I looked on the virtual graph provided by New York Times and every date of a presidential debate, the electoral vote count changes somehow.

As you can see, after the beginning of October after the events of the first presidential debate, there was a large swing for popularity towards Romney- however, after the second presidential debate occurred which was very recently, polls are showing Obama regaining his popularity. 

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/