Polls:  From Yahoo search: vice-presidential debate poll (search news) Wednesday, Oct. 6 (day after debate)
My emphasis

CNN
According to an ABC poll, 43 percent of
                  registered voters said Cheney won, 35
                  percent gave the win to Edwards, and 19
                  percent called it a tie. Thirty-eight percent
                  of the viewers were Republicans, 31
                  percent Democrats, the rest
                  independents. The phone survey was
                  conducted among a random sample of
                  509 registered voters who watched the
                  debate.

                  CBS News' poll specifically focused on
                  uncommitted voters and found 41
                  percent deemed Edwards the winner, 28
                  percent chose Cheney, and 31 percent
                  said it was a tie. CBS based its poll on a
                  "nationally representative sample of 178
                  debate watchers ... who are either
                  undecided about who to vote for or who
                  have a preference but say they could still
                  change their minds."
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/06/debate.main/index.html
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People's Daily, China
                Instant polls by several news websites showed Democratic Senator Edwards was
                  the winner of Tuesday night's US vice presidential debate.
                  About one hour after the debate was over, the Democratic vice presidential nominee
                  was regarded in an instant survey by CBSNEWS.com as the winner by 77 percent of
                  respondents, while only 21 percent chose Vice President Dick Cheney as the winner.
                  A poll by MSNBC.com also found Edwards the winner, leading Cheney 69 percent to
                  31 percent.
                  A QuickVote by CNN.com showed Edwards was viewed as the winner by 78 percent
                  of more than 13,000 voters, against 18 percent for Cheney, with 5 percent saying that
                  the two were evenly matched.
                  Instant polls are not scientific and reflect the opinions of those Internet users who
                  have chosen to participate, and the results cannot be assumed to represent the
                  opinion of Internet user in general nor the public as a whole, according to CNN.com.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200410/06/eng20041006_159175.html
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WKMG TV, Central Florida
Post-debate polls give a split decision among
 voters.

 Cheney did best in an ABC poll. It showed
 that out of a Republican-leaning group of
 people who watched the debate, 43 percent
 said the vice president won, while 35 percent
 said Edwards prevailed.

 But a CBS poll of undecided voters had
 Edwards winning. In that one, 41 percent of
 the group thought the North Carolina senator
 fared the best, while only 28 percent
 thought Cheney did better.
http://www.local6.com/politics/3787345/detail.html
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In a News First SurveyUSA poll, 1,000 Colorado
                   residents were asked whether Vice President
                   Dick Cheney or Senator John Edwards was the
                   clear winner of Tuesday night's Vice Presidential
                   debate.

                   The results show of the 469 respondents who watched the entire debate, 46 percent
                   said Cheney clearly won, while 34 percent said Edwards did. Nineteen percent said
                   there was no clear winner.

                   The same group of people were asked "Did this debate change how you will vote in
                   November?" A majority of respondents, 81 percent, said it will not change their vote.
                   Fourteen percent said it would, and four percent weren't sure.

                   Out of the 68 people who said they would change their vote, 53 percent said they
                   will now vote for Bush, while 45 percent said they have changed to Kerry. Two
                   percent said they will now vote for another candidate.
http://www.koaa.com/news/view.asp?ID=2764
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Polling organizations

http://www.opiniondynamics.com/Phone.html
    FoxNews pollsters.  their phone poll technology

http://www.gallup.com/election2004/numbers/
    CNN's pollsters.  Oldest? professional polling org.
http://brain.gallup.com/  searchable archives since 1935

http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/
http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/pom/polling101.html

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x11358.xml  northeast polling