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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Online polls don’t mean a lot, but then again, neither does anything from CNN.
Actually, despite the biased moderator and the like, it was a great showcase for the two schools of thought. Hillary’s love of socialist redistribution and Trump’s faith in one’s self to live life to the fullest.
If you did line up a thousand undecideds....I doubt if more than a hundred made up their mind last night.
Absolutely correct. The REAL point is "Did you win over any undecideds?"
The only real thing positive about online polls is that if you come out on top it helps morale and any "bandwagon" effect you might have going.
Hillary is widely disliked and her main job was to do or say something that would make people more sympathetic to her. She failed. She's got two more debates to come across as gentle, warm, thoughtful and intelligent. I say she can't do it.
All the polls that I’ve looked at/ FReeped this AM have Trump winning 2 to 1, more or less.
But you don’t know the result of a Presidential debate until several days later after all the spin attempts have had a chance to do their work. By Friday we’ll know who really won the debate. I think it will still be Trump.
On line polls are a pretty strong measure of how energized each candidates political bases are.
Based on these Hillary base is pretty apathetic and weak.
If the goal of last night’s debate was to make Donald Trump look bad (temperament, uninformed, unable to converse, lobbing personal attacks) then none of that came to pass and he “won” among his base and the undecided/uninformed/misfinformed.
If the goal of last night’s debate was to see Hillary Clinton wither under the lights, that didn’t happen. She held firm with a blase BS smile (everyone watching knew it wasn’t genuine warmth or happiness at what was being said). Her lack of honesty is in itself dishonesty.
At least her “Vitamin B-12” shot appears to have worked (do they test for doping as is being done in the Olympics and IQ tests these days)?
http://www.debugmind.com/students-use-performance-enhancing-drugs-for-sat/
Trump goes against 2 liberals and wins
Lester had 6 of hilLIARy’s favorite topics, and she had rehearsed and memorized answers (no one talks like that off the cuff) You could hear her go into recitation mode.
And I wished Trump would have told Lester to shut the F up when he was arguing with him about “The record shows different” but at least Trump did not let him get away with it. I was a bit surprised that they brought up the birther’ topic since it is proved hilLIARy was the one who brought it up against Obama.
Online polls said that Howard Dean was “the people’s choice” YEEEARRGH.
Ron Pauls’ base was able to stuff online polls too.
Online polls mean NOTHING. They are worth LESS than a Yelp! review.
Trump spent too much time defending and not enough time outlining his future goals. There were more than a dozen opportunities to hammer Hillary. Trump missed these openings.
She also had notes. The cleaner: https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/debate-cleaner.jpg
Trump won, but he needs to improve for the next debate. Lester Holt was overtly biased against Trump, so I’ll give him a pass on some things.
100 online polls mean something. It’s 100-1 Trump. The Witch proved she can stand for 90 minutes, it’s a pretty low bar.
If Trump wins a few more % points among likely GOP voters, he will have succeeded. As of 9/20, he only had about 83% of GOP voters unified behind him, according to a Gallup poll. He needs to get that number up closer to 90%.
“Online polls mean NOTHING. They are worth LESS than a Yelp! review”
Yet a t majority of voters did not see the debate, so a little on line poll propaganda can hurt.
Which is utterly irrelevant to the point about each candidates base intensity.
Obama regularly won all the on line polls in 2008 and 2012 easily because his base was on fire and the oppositions was largely apathetic or resigned.
Get rid of moderators altogether and replace them with a modified chess clock timer.
Not only do liberal moderators jump in to act as a second debater against the conservative, but it’s inherently biased to let a liberal supposed “journalist” pose the questions in the first place. Not a single question was posed on Hilllary’s illegal email server, or immigration, or the billions unaccounted for at the Clinton Foundation.
Let the debaters bring their own questions for the other. Begin with a coin toss. 1 minute question, then 3 minute answer, then 2 minute rebuttal, 1 minute counter-rebuttal, 30 second summery/final rebuttal. (These times are merely suggestions, but you get the idea. The mic will switch on and off on a set schedule, known and agreed upon by both debaters.)
The microphone goes hot and cold on this schedule. A soft chime alerts the speaker with the hot mic when they have 10 seconds left in any stage segment, and large countdown clocks will be visible to both sides showing who has the hot mic and their time remaining.
At the end of each 7 or 8 minute stage, provide a minute for a water break or note jotting while the clock resets. The next debater can then use his or her new 1 minute question period to revisit the previous topic, and run the stage again on that topic, or, they can switch to an entirely new topic with a fresh question.
Repeat the process, alternating sides, until both are exhausted and agree to quit, or until an agreed-upon time limit is reached.
Just get rid of 3rd wheel moderators, their interference, and their built-in bias.
Its not called the Clinton News Network for nothing. BOOTLICKING LACKYS!! PINKO SHILLS!!
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