Democratic
presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton prevailed yesterday night as
she outclassed Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton was deemed the winner of Monday night's debate by
62% of voters who tuned in to watch, while just 27% said they thought
Donald Trump had the better night, according to a CNN/ORC Poll of voters
who watched the debate.
That drubbing is similar to Mitt Romney's dominant performance over
President Barack Obama in the first 2012 presidential debate.
Voters who watched said Clinton expressed her views more clearly
than Trump and had a better understanding of the issues by a margin of
more than 2-to-1. Clinton also was seen as having done a better job
addressing concerns voters might have about her potential presidency by a
57% to 35% margin, and as the stronger leader by a 56% to 39% margin.
The gap was smaller on which candidate appeared more sincere and
authentic, though still broke in Clinton's favor, with 53% saying she
was more sincere vs. 40% who felt Trump did better on that score. Trump
topped Clinton 56% to 33% as the debater who spent more time attacking
their opponent.
Although the survey suggested debate watchers were more apt to
describe themselves as Democrats than the overall pool of voters, even
independents who watched deemed Clinton the winner, 54% vs. 33% who
thought Trump did the best job in the debate.
And the survey suggests Clinton outperformed the expectations of
those who watched. While pre-debate interviews indicated these watchers
expected Clinton to win by a 26-point margin, that grew to 35 points in
the post-debate survey.
About half in the poll say the debate did not have an effect on
their voting plans, 47% said it didn't make a difference, but those who
say they were moved by it tilted in Clinton's direction, 34% said the
debate made them more apt to vote for Clinton, 18% more likely to back
Trump.
On the issues, voters who watched broadly say Clinton would do a
better job handling foreign policy, 62% to 35%, and most think she would
be the better candidate to handle terrorism, 54% to 43% who prefer
Trump. But on the economy, the split is much closer, with 51% saying
they favor Clinton's approach vs. 47% who prefer Trump.
Most debate watchers came away from Monday's face-off with doubts
about Trump's ability to handle the presidency. Overall, 55% say they
didn't think Trump would be able to handle the job of president, 43%
said they thought he would. Among political independents who watched the
debate, it's a near-even split, 50% say he can handle it, 49% that he
can't.
And voters who watched were more apt to see Trump's attacks on
Clinton as unfair than they were to see her critiques that way. About
two-thirds of debate viewers, 67%, said Clinton's critiques of Trump
were fair, while just 51% said the same of Trump.
Assessments of Trump's attacks on Clinton were sharply split by
gender, with 58% of men seeing them as fair compared with 44% of women
who watched on Monday. There was almost no gender divide in perceptions
of whether Clinton's attacks were fair.
The CNN/ORC post-debate poll includes interviews with 521
registered voters who watched the September 26 debate. Results among
debate-watchers have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.5
percentage points. Respondents were originally interviewed as part of a
September 23-25 telephone survey of a random sample of Americans, and
indicated they planned to watch the debate and would be willing to be
re-interviewed when it was over.
- CNN
When News Breaks Out, We Break In. (The 2014 Bloggies Finalist)
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