Walz Gets Bigger Polling Boost Than Vance After VP Debate

Wednesday, October 02, 2024

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz saw a significant bump in polling after Tuesday night's vice presidential debate in New York, surpassing Ohio Senator JD Vance in post-debate momentum. According to the poll, the Minnesota governor saw a 23-point boost in his favorability ratings, going up from +14 to +37 (59F-22U). Meanwhile, Vance saw a 19-point boost in his favorability ratings, going up from -22 to -3 (41F-44U).

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A recent Morning Consult survey, carried out among 2,121 likely U.S. voters between September 27 and 29, found that Walz had a 45 percent popularity rating over Vance's 39 percent.

Meanwhile, FiveThirtyEight's favorability tracker shows that Walz has a net favorability score of +4.2 points, with 40.2 percent of voters viewing him favorably, compared to 36 percent who view him unfavorably.

The meaningful takeaways from last night's debate don't appear to be who "won" the debate, but instead how did Americans react to the candidate's and campaign's visions for America's future. On this score, Walz/Harris hit a home run with the viewers polled.

... [D]ebate viewers believe Walz is more in touch with their needs and concerns than Vance, with 48 percent expressing this view compared to 35 percent for Vance. Additionally, 48 percent of respondents felt Walz better aligns with their vision for America, while 39 percent said the same about Vance.

If the above stats are indeed representative of the electorate, Harris/Walz are in the desired position in voter's minds heading toward the stretch run for the presidency.

#1 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-10-02 06:56 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Vance came off as a lying lawyer who everyone is right to hate.

Walz is clearly a farmer at heart.

I'm impressed the governor did so good.

#2 | Posted by Tor at 2024-10-02 11:43 AM | Reply

That shows how clueless the public is. The debate moderators were wrong on claims. Walz was screwy I'm friends with school shooters. Trump paid no taxes was incorrect.

The crux of the real problem is the news media is manipulated and propagandized and untruthful. The only way to fix that is to start having televised public debates between media personalities of different political viewpoints. The media will be forced to expose issues that heretofore were kept covered up. Make the media the players and truth will be the outcome.

#3 | Posted by Robson at 2024-10-02 12:16 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

Robot Rob can't handle the data showing Walz did better.

Heck I doubt he can do basic math.

#4 | Posted by Tor at 2024-10-02 12:29 PM | Reply

Trump paid no income taxes in 10 out of 15 years beginning in 2000

How Trump paid $0 in income tax in 2020

#5 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2024-10-02 12:35 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Why is this judtified right?

Well, considering I was trying to comment on Robson's post I guess it makes sense.

Good, now it is justified left. But a minute ago this post was justifying to the right side of the page.

#6 | Posted by danni at 2024-10-02 01:14 PM | Reply

Will Trump be able to resist not debating again after Vance and Walz tied?

He might want the TV time to dispute Jack Smith's slam dunk of the election fraud case.

Na, he's chicken. Trump even backed out of his 60 Minutes interview. VP Harris didn't.

#7 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-10-02 05:38 PM | Reply