He's an idiot. He performed like an idiot.
It doesn't really matter. Most of his voters are idiots too so its moot.
The election is the same pre-debate as it was post-debate.
Hillary has a slight edge (and has always had) due to presidential voting demographics but there are enough idiots to always keep you scared that it could flip if things turn out really close.
That's what I'm thinking. We'll see how much of a bump Clinton gets from this, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's still a toss-up because most of the Trump voters are already decided and undecideds either skip out and/or don't pay attention until the end to where a lot of his bad points will just be handwaved away quickly for the stuff they stand for. :/
I think the Trump voters are just feeling like they were a demographic that was left behind in modern America. Which is why Trump tries so hard to claim bullshit things like that stop-and-frisk protects black people or that he had nothing to do with birtherism because he knows it would appeal to those blue collar whites who don't want to feel like they're voting for an actual racist.
But Clinton straight up called him a racist and he didn't say shit. I was only listening but it felt like he was just caught off-guard the second he got called on his bs. Clinton's focus wasn't on humiliating him like I was worried she might do, but rather on showing Americans how to spot a con artist. She probably won't convince many people to swing completely from right to left but I think a lot more people are going to walk away believing that Trump is not an option.
They are. It's how a lot of voters in Britain voted against the EU: "THEY TOOK OUR JOBS, THEY RAPE OUR WIMMINS, THEY ARE EVIL!" I mean, it's
known the recession recovery in rust-belt and other rural areas hasn't "bounced back" as well as economists want to say it has. So Trump's stump-speech of "make America great again!" resonates with them because their industries are gone and nothing came to replace them. They're hoping with him in office those industries come back.
Like I said, those voters are already pretty decided through thick or thin (though I haven't seen any of the Trump supports on my Facebook feed crowing for him this morning.
) with him because they feel
he's the answer to this problem more than raising their voices and getting that change to happen.
It's really the undecideds that are left (just look at CNN's feature on some
) that are the toss-up.
Another reason I'm confident...Trump has been stuck at a ceiling of around 40-44% in national polls. He's not close to 50%, he's basically holding his base of white (mainly male) voters and that's literally it. Absolutely nothing he said or did tonight appealed to any group that could get him to 50%. I'm gonna just guess his performance turned women off, he continued to paint the entire black community like they live in Robocop era Detroit, he continued his attacks on immigration, etc.
The math simply does not work for him. If this was a legitimate three or four person race you could argue he was fine, but it's not. Johnson and Stein will follow the path of past 3rd party candidates and significantly under preform on Election Day.
Exactly. But we'll see. I don't underestimate the underclass that had their jobs outsourced/moved.
