538: Debate Winners and Losers (according to the polls)

[Mehmentum]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/the-post-debate-losers-walker-and-winners-fiorina/

Winners: Fiorina, Rubio, Carson, Cruz.  Losers: Walker, Trump, Bush.

Fiorina: +6.0
Rubio: +2.4
Carson: +2.4
Cruz: +1.3
Paul: +0.4
Graham: +0.1
Kasich: +0.0
Chrisite: -0.1
Pataki: -0.3
Santorum: -0.6
Perry: -0.9
Huckabee: -1.1
Jindal: -1.1
Bush: -2.0
Trump: -2.3
Walker: -4.6

[Bull Moose Base]

Clearly the winning strategy is to try to drop as low as you can in the polls so as to get demoted to the kids table debate where you stand out against the woeful competition. The only problem is you then surge into the more competitive grown-up debate and have to do it all over again. It's something of a paradox. And the only one who hasn't figured out this strategy yet is Trump. Talk about a loser (because he's a winner).