Look...I've been glued to presidential debates since Nixon V Kennedy. Those who watched it on T.V. claimed that JFK won...those who listened to it on the radio, claimed that Nixon won. I watched it on T.V. and thought that Nixon won, because I listened carefully to what Nixon and JFK said.
Now I'm watching this debate and am being HONEST. Hillary won the first part ( with Holt's help ), Trump began doing better the second 1/2, but Hillary IS doing better in the long run...for the LIVs out there.
One CAN and SHOULD be honest and not a drooling sycophant about this.
Wrong. Trump won when he talked about free trade and NAFTA calling both a disaster.
So, if I think hitlery lost I am a drooling sycophant?
That's right, you should.
From your analysis, you are only following the cadence of the speech and the inflection; when you listen to the text, the content, Hillary is getting slaughtered.
Trump knows what he's doing: he's aiming at going after the LIVs, who only know what Hillary's ads told them (racist, rich, etc.)
Trump appealed to America's wounded pride (decaying infrastructure, debt, ISIS, cyber vulnerabilities, Iran, nuclear proliferation)...and managed to do it with both a biased moderator (Hillary all but called on Holt for help after he savaged her on one question, and WTF is the birth certificate doing when Obama is LEAVING office, and WTF is a 1992 remark on the Iraq war when Trump was a mere private citizen, doing as lead questions, given Hillary's email servers?)...and questions which were openly, verbatim, modeled on the DNC talking points.