Trump Vs Clinton debate: The race to the White House gets hotter

Both Trump & Clinton are tied in a 2 way poll...In a 4 way, Trump is ahead by 2 points when 3rd party candidates in the fray! The debate has just now started! The whole of America is watching! Let us see who wins the minds of the people in this keenly contested debate!!
[h=1]Trump, Clinton Deadlocked in Bloomberg Poll Before Key Debate[/h]
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are locked in a tied two-way race for the presidency as they head to Hofstra University in New York on Monday night for one of the most highly anticipated debates in modern politics.
The Republican and Democratic nominees each get 46 percent of likely voters in a head-to-head contest in the latest Bloomberg Politics national poll, while Trump gets 43 percent to Clinton’s 41 percent when third-party candidates are included.
Clinton faces higher expectations as tens of millions of people tune in for a television spectacle that could reach Super Bowl viewership levels. About half, 49 percent, say they anticipate the former secretary of state will perform better, while 39 percent say that for Trump, a real-estate developer and former TV personality.
Ann Selzer, the Iowa-based pollster who oversaw the survey, said there are signs that Clinton’s margins with women and young voters have eroded over the past three months, helping to explain Trump’s gains.


http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-09-26/national-poll

Indian stock market took a dip on account of the debate .

If Trump wins in nov elections,It might lose a few hundreds in nifty and thousand plus in sensex.

Third world countries will pay for Trump win.

Hillary may not be better for india.

She is likely to balance india and pakistan.

Iran is a bigger enemy for them now that iraq is demolished.

India is pro iran for many reasons.

Indian professionals in US are likely to face harder times on visa and such issues.

It might become a more unsafe place for indians in US if Trump wins.

hi

its really issue for UNDECIDED voters....lets wait and see...many surprises going to happen in nov...

East or West Home is the best. Even anyone wins, India is not going to be better.

[video=youtube;WC3CLKH7SUY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC3CLKH7SUY[/video]

sowmyasubbaraman said:

East or West Home is the best. Even anyone wins, India is not going to be better.

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I can understand that position, unfortunately we are not that insulated. We live in the digital age, world events matter to all of us. Moreover this forum has members from all walks of life and some of the members live outside of T.Nagar, chennai.
Yes we are a divergent group, and the poster must recognize the audience, and wishes of the owner of the site to be all inclusive.

Clinton has won the debate..But who is going to finally occupy the white house is still a million dollar question...In 2012 Presidential debate Mitt Romney won against a lackluster Obama 67-23..But ultimately Obama won the Presidency & rest is history


Post-debate poll: Hillary Clinton takes round one

By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director

Updated 1642 GMT (0042 HKT) September 27, 2016




Poll: Clinton wins first debate 00:49

Story highlights

• Poll: 62% say Clinton won, 27% said Trump did
• It's a similar result to Romney topping Obama in four years ago

(CNN)Hillary Clinton was deemed the winner of Monday night's debate by 62% of voters who tuned in to watch, while just 27% said they thought Donald Trump had the better night, according to a CNN/ORC Poll of voters who watched the debate.

That drubbing is similar to Mitt Romney's dominant performance over President Barack Obama in the first 2012 presidential debate.
Voters who watched said Clinton expressed her views more clearly than Trump and had a better understanding of the issues by a margin of more than 2-to-1. Clinton also was seen as having done a better job addressing concerns voters might have about her potential presidency by a 57% to 35% margin, and as the stronger leader by a 56% to 39% margin.
The gap was smaller on which candidate appeared more sincere and authentic, though still broke in Clinton's favor, with 53% saying she was more sincere vs. 40% who felt Trump did better on that score. Trump topped Clinton 56% to 33% as the debater who spent more time attacking their opponent.

Although the survey suggested debate watchers were more apt to describe themselves as Democrats than the overall pool of voters, even independents who watched deemed Clinton the winner, 54% vs. 33% who thought Trump did the best job in the debate.
And the survey suggests Clinton outperformed the expectations of those who watched. While pre-debate interviews indicated these watchers expected Clinton to win by a 26-point margin, that grew to 35 points in the post-debate survey.
QUIZ: Are you more like Clinton or Trump?
About half in the poll say the debate did not have an effect on their voting plans, 47% said it didn't make a difference, but those who say they were moved by it tilted in Clinton's direction, 34% said the debate made them more apt to vote for Clinton, 18% more likely to back Trump.
On the issues, voters who watched broadly say Clinton would do a better job handling foreign policy, 62% to 35%, and most think she would be the better candidate to handle terrorism, 54% to 43% who prefer Trump. But on the economy, the split is much closer, with 51% saying they favor Clinton's approach vs. 47% who prefer Trump.
Most debate watchers came away from Monday's face-off with doubts about Trump's ability to handle the presidency. Overall, 55% say they didn't think Trump would be able to handle the job of president, 43% said they thought he would. Among political independents who watched the debate, it's a near-even split, 50% say he can handle it, 49% that he can't.
CNN's Reality Check Team vets the claims in the first presidential debate
And voters who watched were more apt to see Trump's attacks on Clinton as unfair than they were to see her critiques that way. About two-thirds of debate viewers, 67%, said Clinton's critiques of Trump were fair, while just 51% said the same of Trump.
Assessments of Trump's attacks on Clinton were sharply split by gender, with 58% of men seeing them as fair compared with 44% of women who watched on Monday. There was almost no gender divide in perceptions of whether Clinton's attacks were fair.
The CNN/ORC post-debate poll includes interviews with 521 registered voters who watched the September 26 debate. Results among debate-watchers have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points. Respondents were originally interviewed as part of a September 23-25 telephone survey of a random sample of Americans, and indicated they planned to watch the debate and would be willing to be re-interviewed when it was over.


http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/27/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-debate-poll/

Trying to gain sympathy??

Trump says debate microphone was 'defective'

September 27, 2016 19:38

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Controversial Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has claimed that he was given a defective microphone in the fiery debate with his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and questioned whether it
happened on purpose.

"They gave me a defective mic. Did you notice that? My mic was defective within the room," Trump told reporters after the debate.

"I wonder, was that on purpose? Was that on purpose? But I had a mic that didn't work properly," he was quoted as saying by media reports.


The 70-year-old real estate tycoon has often joked on the campaign trail about faulty microphones, saying on occasion that he may refuse to pay for the audio rental. He repeated that joke last week during a campaign event in Kenansville, North Carolina.

http://news.rediff.com/commentary/2...as-defective/3004b41987fb182c3ec76567fa944126