There was a TV audience of millions and some were tracked by pollsters and researchers with reaction buttons and overall reaction charts..
I see @Businessman's point on this. How do you know he wasn't referring to ex-post analysis of the TV viewing audience? After all, he made the statement days after the debate and he didn't say "live audience". Not to mention major campaigns do analysis on these things in real-time. They've got metrics available the moment candidates walk off the stage Of course, if you're a partisan you'll jump to conclusions and believe anything.
And he knew this as it was happening? Amazing. Did he maybe even know it before the pollsters and researchers with their reaction buttons and overall reaction charts? Let us kneel and pray.
They didn't correct her... Once. And they corrected me, everything I said practically. I think nine times, or eleven times. And the audience was absolutely... They went crazy. The real... I thought it was... I walked off I said, it it, that was a great debate, I loved it. Perhaps he was getting feedback on an audience via a hidden earpiece.
You must be a joy to have a free-form verbal conversation with. Are you familiar with the term multiplexing? Sometimes different thoughts come into people's minds at different times. And, if you're in a relaxed, atmosphere you don't take the time to order them perfectly. This is what normal humans do. It's called having a face to face conversation with other humans. If you left the house once in a while Tux you'd know this. Unless you're a marionette, then you are kept in a shoe box until the people pulling your strings have scripted something milquetoast for you to say. Hmmm... I wonder who I could be thinking about?