Who won the debate?

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First Debate Poll
Second Debate Poll

[Lyin' Steve]

Not voting because the debate's not over.
You should lock it until the debate ends.

[Blue3]

[Hermit For Peace]

LOL!

[Pyro]

Clinton by a mile.

[Fusionmunster]

OMFG Clinton won bigly

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Breaking: Atlas Clinton hacks vote Clinton won debate, nation shocked

[Maxwell]

Breaking: Atlas Clinton hacks vote Clinton won debate, nation shocked

Pyro's for Jill Stein and is incredibly critical of Clinton. Yet said Clinton won.

[Fusionmunster]

Breaking: Atlas Clinton hacks vote Clinton won debate, nation shocked

R they wrong though?

[MasterJedi]

Clinton won bigly, in a YUGE way. Little hands moron flopped harder than anyone could have hoped for!

[Lyin' Steve]

My take:

This debate was just like the previous two.

Trump complains and complains and complains and has no solutions.  He claims things are ridiculous, a disaster, a complete mess, what have you, but he clearly has no idea what he's actually talking about beyond a vague memory of watching Fox News talk about it.  He states facts that are blatantly wrong -- not just a matter of opinion, although he has plenty of wrong opinions too, but just things that are the complete opposite of what's true and are easily verifiable as false.  It's like if he said the U.S. had 57 states or something.  But most of the time he doesn't even bother with facts, he just rattles of insults, sometimes the same insult over and over again like he's just listing a thesaurus.  "It's a disaster.  It's a total. complete. disaster.  It's a total mess."  Then his coup de gras is to blame Clinton for every single thing that's wrong.  If she was a Senator, why didn't she fix it?  In the thirty years she's been in power (going way back to when she was first lady of Arkansas in 1986-1992) why hasn't she solved every single problem?  She won't because she can't.  I rest my case.  By the way, for all Trump's claims that Clinton is an oh-so-terrible canned politician, he repeats the same prepared lines constantly.  This is the third debate where we've heard the exact same rant about "why are we telling ISIS our plans?"

Clinton refuses to go for the kill.  She weasels out of easy lay-ups where Trump leaves huge openings.  She avoids defending herself at all against Trump's onslaught of insults and dodges the moderator's questions.  All of her answers are clearly prepared.  She's polished, shiny, extremely good at delivery, she makes good points and attacks.  Furthermore, when she actually gets into the weeds of policy, she's very smart and clearly knows what she's talking about and actually has well-structured plans that most people should support.  There's something frustratingly fake and careful about her, but she's the much better candidate.

In my opinion, Clinton absolutely demolished Trump.  She was smarter, had real plans and answers, didn't constantly lie and rely on total conspiracy theories, knew what the hell she was talking about, was far more presidential, and made a number of attacks against Trump that he was unable to respond to.  In the opinion of the American people?  People just hear what they want to hear.  If they want to like Trump, they'll ignore all the obvious things he did wrong.  They'll say they don't care about his complete lack of knowledge, ideas, intelligence, etc. and then complain about Clinton making minor versions of Trump's major sins.

Clinton is by far the better candidate and has consistently whipped Trump in these debates.  She will win the election in a well-deserved landslide.  But frustratingly, some 40% of people will think Trump won this debate no matter what.  He could wet his pants on stage, say North Korea is helping us fight ISIS, and pledge to ship all Catholics to Putin's gulags, and 40% of people would still say he won the debate.

[Southern Delegate matthew27]

did trump consult alex jones before this debate? LOL

[Lachi]

Trump's bottom has fallen out

Clinton demolished him.

[Senator-elect Spark]

Clinton, I would like to congratulate my fellow liberals on a hard fought campaign. I just can't wait for it to be over.

[Fusionmunster]

HE CALLED HER A NASTY WOMAN, I CANT I CANT

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Trump's best debate so far, but..

Clinton wins.

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Trump's bottom has fallen out

Clinton demolished him.

[BoAtlantis]

I am a Hillary supporter admittedly, but I was gracious and objective enough to admit Trump beat her in 2nd debate (weighted by expectation).

She beat him tonight handily.

[Maxwell]

Clinton won, for many reasons but the defining one is because Trump spent his time tying her to a President with a 52% approval rating.

[Wells]

Clinton. Because Trump is just that bad. Every time he could dig himself out of a hole, be decided that he needed to dig 10 feet deeper.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

CNN calling it "a wash" and saying "it didn't move the needle."  lol

[Rand]

Clinton dominated. She compromised Trump's composure early on when she said he "choked" and it was smooth sailing after that.

[morgieb]

Trump was probably even worse than the 1st Debate. Hillary did occassionally get dragged down to his level but for the most part stayed above the fray. Hillary won easily.

[Maxwell]

CNN calling it "a wash" and saying "it didn't move the needle."  lol

that's amazing for Clinton considering she's up 8 points. Trump needed to move the needle.

[ProudModerate2]

No doubt Clinton won this debate.
She did very well.
trump spoke in gibberish and everything was negative.