Fox News (Conservative) and Yahoo News (Liberal) Agree
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
Online votes declare Trump debate winner, despite media
consensus for Clinton
The
Drudge Report online vote had 80 percent of respondents giving the victory to
Trump, and a Time.com survey had the Republican nominee leading Clinton by 4 percentage
points – 52 percent to 48 percent – after more than 1,300,000 votes were cast.
CNBC and Breitbart votes also had Trump winning the event, at New
York ’s Hofstra
University .
A Fox
News online vote had Trump winning with 50 percent of respondents, Clinton at
35 percent and the other 15 percent declaring no one won.
The
online surveys are not scientific and, in many cases, supporters of either
candidate can cast multiple ballots. Still, the disconnect in judging Trump’s
performance was reminiscent of the Republican Party primary, when pundits often
said his competitors bested him while online polls put him on top.
Experts
say the online votes are a good gauge of enthusiasm, which could mean Trump’s
performance was enough to energize those who already backed him.
Experts
were near unanimous in finding Clinton was more disciplined and armed with
greater recall of facts, but Trump’s supporters believe his blunt style and
unconventional background are among his best attributes.
Trump’s
best moment, according to Stuart Tarlow, of American Thinker, came when he
distinguished himself from Clinton
based on their disparate backgrounds. Trump characterized his opponent as a
"typical politician," who knows how to make statements and promises
that sound good, but who never actually gets things done, Tarlow wrote.
Most
experts agree the winner and loser won’t be determined based on arcane rules of
debating. Hillary’s mission was to come off as well-versed on the facts and
warm, while Trump’s goal was to appear capable of filling the role of chief
executive.
The real
test of who won and who lost will likely come in the next wave of scientific
polling in what has become a dead-even race. If Trump continues to surge in key
battleground states, it will be taken as evidence he accomplished what he
needed to in the debate. If Clinton
stops or even reverses his momentum, she may be retroactively declared the
winner.
Edward
Panetta, professor of communication studies at the University of Georgia and
director of the Georgia Debate Union, said Trump got out of the gate fast, but
then struggled.
“While
Donald Trump was strong in the first 20 minutes of the debate he faltered badly
as the debate progressed,” Panetta said.
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