Did Hillary Clinton really win the debates

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It depends on how you define win. If you define win as having better answers to questions,  Hillary won 1/3 and 2 was closer as others have stated. But these wins did not net her votes she didnt already have.

But a debate is also about gaining other voters by addressing perceived problems. In Hillary's case, everybody knew she was a policy wonk but her perceived problems were likeability and whether she really stood for anything she said. She failed here and if anything made the situation worse.

Meanwhile Trump's problems were whether he was just some carnival barker and to a lesser degree whether he had any brains. The latter was less of a problem since Americans generally think a business person got rich because of brains and the Hillary campaign never really pointed out that Trump got rich by being born to the right parents (in fairness, Rubio did but that obviously didnt help him). I dont think Trump really helped his case much in the debates since he basically just threw incendiary bombs, but he didnt hurt himself either since his bombs were expected and at least germane to the issues.