Trump won it, kept hammering the message about Clinton has been there for a long time and hasn't fixed things, and got her to talk up NAFTA which won't go over well in the places she needs to take from Trump. Trump flubbed some answers, but he was overall decently effective against most of her attacks. People were reminded that he is offensive but that's baked into it already. I didn't see any focused sustained message from Clinton. Her split screen reactions to what Trump said didn't come off well. She had a few good zingers, but nothing memorable.
The polls say otherwise.
That article is from 2012, and isn't about the debates?