Posted on 09/27/2016 5:39:15 AM PDT by Donglalinger
CNN awarded Hillary Clinton an overwhelming victory in the first presidential debate - but most snap polls show Trump emerged victorious.
Trump and Clinton tangled over the economy, her use of a private mail server and his unwillingness to release his income tax returns on Monday night.
They engaged in a vigorous back-and-forth on the debate stage at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, as polls showed them locked in a tight race.
However, after the debate's end, polls conducted by a number of media websites showed their readers felt the real estate mogul came out on top.
Trump acknowledged the result, tweeting: 'Wow, did great in the debate polls (except for @CNN - which I don't watch). Thank you!'
CNN/ORC's snap poll, gave Clinton the win with 62 per cent to Trump's 27.
It was the biggest, and fastest, exercise conducted by an opinion polling firm.
The poll of 521 registered voters who watched the debate was a sample which the network warned leaned more Democratic than the average - starting the night with Clinton ahead 26 per cent among the sample.
And while it handed the victory overwhelmingly to Clinton, it was more mixed on whether the debate will make a difference, with 47 per cent saying it would not affect their vote, 34 per cent saying it moved them towards Clinton - and 18 per cent towards Trump.
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Hillary’s barometer of “success” is admittedly low.
The same people who absolutely rejected her in 2008 now are celebrating her as the emperor’s new clothes.
Nothing genuine so therefore the election will not be determined by political and historical facts.
Trump wasn’t the monster the media portrayed him as. Nana is a phony. Cracks in her exterior may take her down.
That is, if her base doesn’t cast their votes BEFORE her fall.
And where were those documents wikileaks said they were going to release? Voting has already begun in the general election.
Actually they do provide a measurement of intensity of support.
Love the fact that on line polls are desperately important to certain freepers as long as the Dem is winning but magically become “irrelevant” when the Dem is losing them badly.
If I hadn’t been at a friend’s, I would’ve turned off after around 30 minutes which some are saying was the national trend.
Those who watched NFL Football are going to get their “news” of the debate secondhand.
“Can’t hurt”
I’ve seen Trump with about 90% of Republicans and even with Clinton as far as party support in recent polls. If he holds that or improves he’s just fine.
CNN/ORC poll was of registered voters, which typically favor Democrats - so no surprise it was overwhelmingly pro-Clinton.
An outlier as we like to say here. Most people in fact thought Trump won the debate hands down.
I’m disgusted by FR concern trolls who help to advance the MSM/liberal narrative of a Trump defeat. We need friends like them like we need enemies.
We need to make sure the world knows Trump won and why argue with the American people? They want Trump!
You have to establish a standard for “winning” first before you can tell who won. I would say that the object of the debate was to gain votes. I can’t imagine anyone who started the evening as a Trump supporter changed their mind after the debate. Trump was himself as we have come to know him. But perhaps some of the Hillary supporters who are not all that enthusiastic about their candidate saw Trump as not a mad man or a bigot, but as someone who is making truthful observations about our government and suggesting practical solutions. I believe this may have flipped some of those votes. On that basis, I believe Trump won the debate.
I am biased in favor of Trump.
Otherwise, i can’t get past hillary’s pathological lying and her multiple personalities.
Say what sounds good to the media, plenty of sound bites for the media to “interpret” into Trump is [fill in the blank], and claim you are going fix the infrastructure your boss (obama), who had EIGHT YEARS promised he would fix and did not.
Same with alternative energy.
The healthcare system would have probably been better off if he did nothing.
Oh, and the pesky debt that he trippled? in 8 years.
People who are going to vote for Hillary already made up their minds.
If you want to vote for her, vote for her! Stop wasting our time telling us we’re stupid for acknowledging Trump won!
And we intend to elect him our next President with or without your help. That includes liberals, NeverTrumpers and FR concern trolls.
Get the hell out of our way! We’ve a country to save.
It depends.
My view is that Americans genuinely don’t like Hillary and the system.
If they wanted Hillary, they would have picked her like a month ago.
There’s zero enthusiasm for her even after last night.
She not widely admired.
Online polls are for people too stupid to understand real polls.
These polls, minus the “rigged” CNN poll, were not “real” polls. What they were, was an early look at the election results.
It was a way for voters, (and not just you under educated white guys, you know.... Bubbas), to show their preference for president.
That is why TRUMP wins, going away, in almost every single poll.
The under polled Trump undervote unleashed themselves on instant online polls last night.
They were able to voice their preference without the MSM filter. The media couldn’t CONTROL how they voted and won’t be able do do so in November either.
GO TRUMP!
When asked, people vote for whoever they are going to vote for rather than saying who won the debate. The snaps polls indicate that Trump will be the next president.
Headline should be “ALL snap polls except Clinton News Network...” not majority.
If what you say is true, how come Trump won all on-line polls and squashed his 16 opponents during the primaries?
On-line poll do reflect one thing for sure...ENERGIZED voters. Trump voters are energized.
If nothing else, it shows that Trump supporters were willing to waste more time on online polls than Hillary’s were. I think that does show more enthusiasm on our side.
In reality you cannot prove the “birther” case beyond a reasonable doubt (which means you could not convict in a court of law, not that America needed Obama to be POTUS). Likewise Obama could not prove the contrary, either. Not if producing two different “birth certificates,” each with embedded flaws suggesting forgery are the best he can do.At this late date we should know that integrity,, wisdom, specific intention (not “caring”), and ability are what matter. If Ronald Reagan had been born in Moscow, and if Obama had been born in Kansas, would Reagan have been the worst president in history, and Obama the best?
My bottom line is that “natural born” is a technicality. I would cheerfully see that issue - and the bias against having a VP from the same state as the POTUS - excised by Amendment. That the latter is a mere technicality is illustrated amply by the case of VP Cheney; people do move freely from state to state, giving scarcely a thought about living under a different state government (state income tax excepted). Albeit I do not favor abandonment of the Electoral College, and on that account I suppose leaving the VP issue alone would be to the good.
The Opera aint over til the Fat Lady Sings! Trump didn’t put her away last night—but there are 2 more debates to go.
She was talking in hesitating manner, truly annoying. “We need... for our communities... blacks and police... to come together... stay positive” like a fracking translated UN speech. I believe it when people said she had an ear piece.
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