Ordinarily a campaign that put something like that together would agonise over it for weeks, run focus groups, debate placement, re-script, re-shoot, re-cut and run more numbers and spent more precious money before they release it.
It begins as a reboot of an earlier sketch, in which an all-male focus group debates whether Amy is hot enough for TV, but soon it dives deeper.
3. Divide students in four groups, and explain to them that each group will be acting as a focus group, debating the merits of different types of reality television programming for a network that is planning to launch a new show.
(FG13) Although focus group participants debated the value of anonymisation, there was little consensus on what would qualify as identifying information, or how anonymisation could be achieved effectively.
On fiscal policy, Mr Bush notably failed to respond in any detail to Mr Gore's persistent attacks: his repeated assertion that Mr Gore's charges were based on "fuzzy math" went down particularly badly with the various focus groups tracking the debate.
She heads to DC, San Francisco and New York to raise money to pay for focus groups, television ads, debate prep and more as the general election season heads into high gear.
More widely, Weldon usefully summarizes some of the methods used to engage the diverse citizen body within public engagement efforts: citizen juries, deliberative polls, focus groups, Internet consultation, public debates, Web debates, and more artistic media such as theater and exhibitions (Weldon 2004, 20).
The details of such discussions are kept under wraps, but he concludes - in general terms - that focus groups would rather MPs "debated the issues sensibly" than behave like children.
Mr. Blitzer, the CNN anchor, presided over the network's three post-debate focus groups, convened in highly contested states: Florida, Missouri and Michigan.
They railed against what they called slanted coverage and the preponderance of talk shows in which journalists, political scientists and so-called focus groups begin deconstructing televised debates before the candidates have even left the stage.
