Snap Polls Suggest Clinton Won Debate, But Changed Few Minds
Source: Huffington Post
In a scientific online snap poll from YouGov, Clinton won a relatively narrow victory, with 47 percent of registered voters who watched the debate saying she did a better job, 42 percent saying Donald Trump did, and 12 percent saying it was a tie.
Undecided voters favored Clinton by a 3-point margin, the pollsters said, with female viewers saying by a 12-point margin that Clinton won and men saying by a 3-point margin that Trump won.
A majority of debate-watchers polled by YouGov said that Clinton was better-prepared, more knowledgeable and more presidential, while Trump won top marks only for being more negative and for interrupting more often.
Clinton scored a bigger win in a snap poll from CNN/ORC, which recontacted people who said in a past poll that they planned to watch the debate. Fifty-seven percent of the debate-watchers polled said that Clinton won, while 34 percent favored Trump.
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No two ways about it. Clinton is presidential, a statesman. Donald is a dangerous downward spiraling vindictive demagogue.
CLINTON WON!
NO CONTEST!
(CNN) Hillary Clinton scored a second victory over Donald Trump in Sunday night's presidential debate, according to debate watchers in a new CNN/ORC poll. But even though he trailed Clinton overall, Trump far exceeded debate watchers' expectations.
Among voters who watched the debate, 57% said Clinton did the best job in the face-off at Washington University in St. Louis, while just 34% thought Trump did. That's a less commanding victory for Clinton than in the first debate, but she still boosted her edge over Trump among debate watchers on handling the economy and being the stronger leader.
More than 6-in-10, however, said Trump did a better job than they expected, while 21% thought he did a worse job than expected. Clinton also exceeded expectations, but by a smaller margin: 39% said she did better than they were expecting her to, while 26% thought she did worse.
There was a wide gender gap in perceptions of who won the debate, with 64% of women saying Clinton did the best job vs. 49% of men.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/10/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-debate-cnn-poll/index.html
(in the sane world) was keeping his trap shut after only being told once or twice to STFU (versus the last time, when his verbal vomit flowed forth unabated while Hillary attempted to talk).
