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The Impact of Debates? It’s Debatable
With the Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump debates upon us, the quadrennial question comes begging: Do these showdowns matter?
The chances for impact seem ripe this year. The two most unpopular major-party candidates in the history of ABC News/Washington Post polls are facing off. Donald Trump’s unorthodox campaign style and provocative positions have piqued public interest; the debates may be the single best opportunity for him to allay concerns about his qualifications, temperament and policy promises alike.
Read More >>Trump Allies Move to Stem Damage From Strong Clinton Debate
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s team scrambled Tuesday to stem the political damage from Democrat Hillary Clinton’s wins in early reviews of their first debate.
Both global financial markets and everyday voters in polls said Clinton carried the day in the highly anticipated showdown.
Read More >>6 takeaways from the first presidential debate
Hillary Clinton stepped onto the debate stage Monday night determined to show that only one candidate is ready to be president.
Clinton Wins Debate, But Did She Win Over Voters?
Hillary Clinton demonstrated a command of policy on Monday night, and a cool confidence that she was more prepared than Donald Trump to be commander in chief. By the end of the first presidential debate, Trump looked peeved and distracted. He didn’t get in a clever one-liner to defang Clinton’s criticisms. The media’s focus groups of undecided voters (on CNN and FOX) rated Clinton as the clear debate winner.
Read More >>Keys for tonight’s debate
Tonight’s debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will help to frame the election for the last several weeks of the campaign (but probably not determine it, as Mitt Romney learned to his sorrow after outperforming President Obama in the first debate of 2012). The Washington Post offers several things to look for in this evening’s clash:
5 things to watch at the presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
For the past month, Trump has had the longtime anti-Clinton investigator ... Read More >>
5 things to watch at the presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will meet Monday at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., for their first presidential debate — the face-to-face culmination of months of fierce political battle. They will bring their own aims and political baggage, their own styles and quirks.
Read More >>Where The Race Stands Heading Into The First Debate
Whatever arguments we’ve had about the polls this week will soon be swamped by the reaction to Monday’s presidential debate. As a rough guide, I’d expect us to have some initial sense of how the debate has moved the numbers by Thursday or Friday based on quick-turnaround polls, and a clearer one by next Sunday or so, when an array of higher-quality polls will begin to report their post-debate results as well.
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