Poll: Majority of Voters Say Clinton Won First Presidential Debate

[SunSeeker]

Source: NBC News

A majority of likely voters (52 percent) who either watched the debate or said they followed debate coverage in the news said Hillary Clinton won the first presidential debate on Monday night, according to the NBC News|SurveyMonkey Debate Reaction Poll.

Just 21 percent of likely voters thought Donald Trump won the debate, and 26 percent said neither candidate won the debate.

The poll was conducted online from September 26 immediately following the debate through September 27, 2016.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/data-points/poll-majority-voters-say-clinton-won-first-presidential-debate-n656231

[Botany]

1. How could anybody watch that debate and not say HRC won?

47% =

[SunSeeker]

2. Blind hate?

[Frank Cannon]

11. The other 47% just want free stuff.

They think Bigly McCokespoon can deliver it for them.

Romney was right.

[Dr. Forrester]

3. Came in third!

He came in third! In an event with two participants!

[Mira]

5. I had to think a second -

that's a brilliant comment.
Welcome to DU

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Hillary has won more Presidential debates than any major party woman candidate in history. . . nt

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

4. I'm not sure what it means to win or lose a debate in this polarized climate

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It isn't exactly like Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson where their differences were fairly nuanced. Someone who thinks one or the other of these characters is nothing less than the antichrist isn't going to do a 180 because of debate quips.

[SunSeeker]

6. Debates are about pulling in the undecideds and energizing the base.

Trump did neither. That is what it means to lose a presidential debate.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

13. No undecided is going to learn anything about these two they don't already know

Trump's shtick either works on you or it doesn't.

[SunSeeker]

17. Well, independents definitely learned something about Trump, and it was not good.

As the article at the link notes, that same poll showed that 22% of independents had a worse opinion of Trump after the debate, as opposed to only 9% who had a better opinion of Trump. That is more than a 2 to 1 margin. Not good.

[SunSeeker]

18. And lookie here: 9% of viewers polled said the debate changed their mind!

Nine (9%) per cent of the respondents to the Politico/Morning Consult poll said the debate changed their minds about whom to vote for. Nine per cent of the electorate is a lot. If we assume that two-thirds of these voters switched to Clinton and one-third switched to Trump, which would be in line with the finding that Clinton won the debate by a two-to-one margin among respondents, we could expect the polls to swing in her favor by three (3%) per cent.

How Much Damage Did the Debate Do to Donald Trump? - The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/how-much-damage-did-the-debate-do-to-donald-trump

[Chakaconcarne]

7. Only 52%?...what the hell ever...

[bigwillq]

9. 52 is a nice number

If Hillary Clinton gets 52 percent in November, it's more than likely she wins the White House

[SunSeeker]

10. Only 21% gave it to Trump. That is a 31-point trouncing. nt

[William769]

12. How can this be? The internet polls said trump won!

[llmart]

14. That 26%?

Those are just people who wanted Trump to come close to "winning" the debate, but are all sour grapes about the fact that he was abysmal, so when asked said, "Neither one." They are the same ones who know Hillary is 1,000 times better but refuse to vote for her. I heard one guy, who was introduced as a Republican strategist on NPR tonight say that he disliked Trump but just wouldn't vote rather than vote for a Democrat. Those people are just plain sore losers and don't really care about this country at all.

[cstanleytech]

15. She didn't win the debate.

She crushed it and she crushed Trump like an orange.

[SunSeeker]

16. True. When you're talking a 30+ point margin, she definitely crushed it. nt