Why do people say that Hillary won all three debates?

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Because the polls all overwhelmingly said she did. Even if they were significantly off, the margin was big enough that there's zero ambiguity.

The revisionist history here is getting insane.

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The debates are like, the last vestiges we've got of a substantial policy discussion. If candidates choose to use their time rallying the troops with burns and zingers, that's they're choice, but I don't think getting rid of that platform would do any good. There are still voters out there who want to hear about policy. Don't take that away just because the media hypes up a grudge match.

Debates are hardly even about policy anymore. And unfortunately, Americans couldn't care less, which is the reason why. Supply and demand.

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Hillary was actually being very generous in her basket of deplorables remark by only calling 50% of Trump supporters deplorables. The true number is much higher (see my sig.)

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I don't really care about what party-affiliated posters think about the debate, of course most Republicans are going to think Trump won and most Democrats will think Hillary won.

Most polls say that undecided voters thought Hillary won the debates, they matter more than party members. However, most undecided voters broke toward Trump for the election, which ultimately matters. Pretty simple analysis.

Because Americans, especially "undecided voters", have the attention span of a schizophrenic drugged up goldfish.

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I don't really care about what party-affiliated posters think about the debate, of course most Republicans are going to think Trump won and most Democrats will think Hillary won.

Most polls say that undecided voters thought Hillary won the debates, they matter more than party members. However, most undecided voters broke toward Trump for the election, which ultimately matters. Pretty simple analysis.

Because Americans, especially "undecided voters", have the attention span of a schizophrenic drugged up goldfish.

Actually, no Romney lost because of the perception the Obama team put out until September of that year.


I would actually say if the campaign season was only in October  , Romney wins  by a narrow margin

There's no evidence for this. If that was the case, Romney wouldn't have surged after the first debate.