Having Slept on it, State of Washington Drifts Slightly to Biden in Scoring the VP Debate … The day after Thursday night’s debate between Republican Sarah Palin and Democrat Joe Biden, SurveyUSA again polled the state of Washington. This follows a poll conducted by SurveyUSA Thursday night, seconds after the debate. The first poll was conducted before pundits could have influenced what debate watchers thought. This, the 2nd poll, conducted Friday, was completed after some national polls showed that Biden had performed well in the debate, and after both campaigns had time to ’spin’ the results.

Of debate watchers: 36% today Friday say Palin was the clear winner, down 6 points from 42% Thursday night.
41% today Friday say Biden was the clear winner, up 2 points from 39% Thursday night.
22% today Friday say there was no clear winner, up from 18% Thursday night.

Debate audience was 27% Republican, 35% Democrat, 32% Independent.

Of debate watchers:
49% say their opinion of Palin went up (was 52% Thursday). 20% say their opinion of Palin went down (was 19% Thursday).
42% say their opinion of Biden went up (unchanged). 17% say their opinion of Biden went down (20% Thursday).

SurveyUSA state of Washington research conducted exclusively for KING-TV Seattle.