It's also well known that historically the candidate that wins the opening debate, doesn't win the election.
Sorry, not jumping that cliff yet.
slightly amend that, the candidate that wins the first debate rarely wins the presidency. According to Gallop, the one that ran this poll.
And I'm still waiting on party identification so we can compare it to the previous poll.
I hope that's true. Sounds like the truism that the taller man always win, but which was not true in 2000.