Americans see Hillary Clinton as the winner of the first presidential debate by a near-record margin in ABC News/Washington Post post-debate polls, with nearly half saying Donald Trump got his facts wrong and one in three saying he outright lied. His unpopularity grew slightly. CONT. Gary Langer, ABC News Read more »
Fox News Poll: Clinton ahead of Trump after debate, fear motivating both sides
Hillary Clinton has gained ground on Donald Trump, who has slipped in key measures of the presidential race after the first debate. First, the horserace. Clinton is ahead of Trump by three percentage points: 43-40 percent in the four-way matchup, according to a new Fox News Poll of likely voters. […] Read more »
Clinton’s Victory on the Larger Side for Modern Debates
By 61% to 27%, Americans who tuned in to Monday night’s presidential debate believe Hillary Clinton, rather than Donald Trump, did the better job. Her 34-percentage-point lead is among the more robust victories presidential candidates have earned in Gallup’s post-debate polls stretching back to 1960, on par with Bill Clinton’s […] Read more »
Campaign Says Trump ‘Did Win the Debate Polls’
Jason Miller, the Trump campaign’s senior communications adviser, and Chuck Todd discuss the validity of snap online polls that showed Donald Trump won Monday’s debate vs. scientific polls that indicate he lost to Hillary Clinton. NBC News Read more »
Early Polls Suggest A Post-Debate Bounce For Clinton
Every scientific poll we’ve encountered so far suggests that voters thought Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump in Monday night’s debate. In fact, some of them showed her winning by a wide margin — wide enough to make it a good bet (though not a guarantee) that she’ll gain in horse-race […] Read more »
Debating the debate
We enjoy believing debates are central determinants of election outcomes. They give campaigns a focus, journalists a hook around which to wrap their coverage and citizens the illusion that we render verdicts based on intellectual trial by combat. In truth, though, debates have probably never decided a presidential election. That […] Read more »