In interviews with the same voters conducted before the debate, 56% said they expected Biden to do the better job while 43% expected that Trump would. The post-debate result is about the same as the outcome of a post-debate poll in 2016 after the first debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton. In that poll, 62% thought Clinton won the debate, 27% said Trump did.
Visit CNN's Election Center for full coverage of the 2020 race About two-thirds said Biden's answers were more truthful than Trump's (65% Biden to 29% Trump), and his attacks on the President were more frequently seen as fair. Overall, 69% called Biden's attacks on Trump fair while just 32% said Trump's attacks were fair. The survey is designed to be representative of those registered voters who watched Tuesday's debate, it does not represent the views of all Americans. The voters who watched the debate were more partisan than Americans as a whole — 35% identified as independents or non-partisans compared with around 40% in the general public, and the group of debate watchers was more Democratic than a typical survey of all adults, with 39% identifying as Democrats and 25% as Republicans.
The CNN post-debate poll was conducted by SSRS by telephone and includes interviews with 568 registered voters who watched the September 29 debate. Results among debate-watchers have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 6.3 percentage points. Respondents were originally interviewed September 22-27 either by telephone or online, and indicated they planned to watch the debate and would be willing to be re-interviewed when it was over. Respondents initially reached online are members of the SSRS Opinion Panel, a nationally representative probability-based panel.
Attitudes toward Trump have consistently been much more negative than those toward his predecessor, Barack Obama, in the overwhelming majority of countries. Indeed, in many states, ratings for Trump are similar or worse to those received by George W. Bush near the end of his presidency.
This year, residents of Maine will be using ranked choice voting to vote for the president. So they can put their favorite choice on top, and a second lessor (of two evils) choice next. So they can voice their hope and still cast a safety vote.
No, it's not perfect, but I'd take it over what we have most everywhere else now.
We do ranked choice and I think it is great but problems arise when you get to a really large number of parties. Here, you can assign your down-ballot choices to your first choice party to decide and than leads to back-room deals. Then you get fringe parties with vague platforms that are hard to rank but can affect the outcome. Do I rank the Dog-Whistle party above or below the Utterly Racist Party?
Do you remember this famous scene from the first Matrix film? Shown below is a wonderful young woman who appears to have gone through a similar metamorphosis. Whatâs critical to realize is that such @Walkaway videos will have 1,000 times more impact on center left folks than anything you or I can every possibly say to them will.
