Here's Who Won the Second Presidential Debate (from Fortune Magazine)

[groundloop]

Source: Fortune Magazine

A rattled and defiant Donald Trump sought Sunday to move past the video of him musing about sexually assaulting women that since its Friday revelation has sent his presidential campaign into a tailspin. But in trying to answer for the 2005 comments in the opening round of the second presidential debate, the Republican nominee mixed qualified contrition with angry counterattacks on Hillary Clinton unlikely to endear him to anyone not already in his camp.

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He accused Clinton of smearing women who’ve accused her husband of assault and said she should be “ashamed” for discussing his comments. More strikingly, he pledged to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton’s email controversy and later told his opponent that if he’s elected, “you’d be in jail.”

The moment is likely to reverberate. It amounted, after all, to a major party presidential candidate promising to use the criminal justice system to satisfy a personal vendetta against his challenger — a threat more likely from a tinpot dictator than an aspirant for the highest office in the world’s most powerful democracy.

Trump’s performance overall, channeling the same rageful id that lifted his outsider bid all the way to the GOP nomination, may have been enough to calm his most committed supporters. Whether it stops Republican officialdom from continuing their abandonment of his candidacy will become clear in the next few days. A pair of snap polls of debate watchers found that Clinton won: CNN/ORC survey gave her a 57-34 advantage, with YouGov registering a narrower Clinton win, 47-42.

Read more: http://fortune.com/2016/10/09/heres-who-won-the-second-presidential-debate/

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I don't have time to dig up every post-debate poll tonight, maybe others here can chime in with results from other legitimate polls.

[Cha]

6. Thank you for this, groundloop!

[MrModerate]

8. If I was a Republican officeholder not up for election this cycle . . .

I'd just grit my teeth and hope to get through the next 30 days.

Any Republicans up for election, however, don't have that luxury. They're wearing the Trump livery, and all we need to figure out is how to link them to the most unfit presidential candidate in (maybe) history.

[Kingofalldems]

9. But but but Joe and Mika said Trump was just great!

Of course they have zero credibility.