Presidential Debate Thread

[Brill]

The latest conspiracy from the debate: Hillary was sending Lester Holt, a registered Republican, hand signals in order to get him to interrupt Trump. Totally plausible

I seriously doubt anyone would be surprised if it were true.

 

[Single Malt]

Yet to find any reliable news websites that show it. Most are not known names, or clearly biased.

What about just listening to his interviews on morning radio shows or the videos? Do you think that Trump's mouth is biased against him?

 

[Salt USMC]

Yeah. A lot of those polls get posted to places like the Trump subreddit and conservative Facebook groups, who then flood the voting.

Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight says that current events are reflected in polling about a week after the event happens. We'll see real reflections of the debates in about a week when the next round of state polling is released.

The real polls are in: Clinton is up 3-5 points nationally, and gained ground in key swing states
Key takeaways:
-Florida is still too close to call, and probably will be all the way up to election day
-North Carolina and Nevada might go blue this year
-Her debate performance was strong enough to give Clinton some polling momentum, but it's too soon to tell if that will last to the second debate in a little over a week

With the exception of Florida, the states cited in that article only got one new poll apiece. We'll know if the gains are legitimate if a second round of polling on Monday confirms them.

 

[ThunderHorse]

Lester Holt's a Republican...fooled me. Working for MSNBC makes you pretty much a liberal at any time. Scarborough's slant has gone way to the left and he used to be a Republican Congress Critter.

 

[AWP]

I'm locking this, not because of any bias towards anyone or the arguments, but because we have a thread on the Presidential race.