QRIOUSLYS POLL FOR KEEPIN IT 1600 ON THE 2ND PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
Qriouslys latest political poll comes in the form of a debate performance analysis: we ran a pre-debate poll on the weekend of 8-9 October (after the release of the tape involving Trumps comments on groping women), and a second poll just following the debate on Monday / Tuesday 10-11 October (see methodology for more details).
The idea was to measure the impact of this debate on likely voters in eight key battleground states (Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, Colorado, Iowa, Nevada and New Hampshire). We also looked at how well each candidate performed during the debate according to viewers.
Overall, we found that Clinton comprehensively won the debate among our bipartisan sample of likely voters in battleground states (including among Independents); but her overall support didnt increase significantly after the debate, and Trumps support didnt collapse. We dont expect the next series of polls to show a significant change after the debate (unless they are in fact measuring the impact of the tape release).
CLINTON WON THE DEBATE
Hillary Clinton can rest easy, for now: as with the first debate, she is widely perceived to have won against her opponent, with 44% of likely voters in swing states (who had seen at least part of the debate) saying that she did the best job, compared to only 33% for Trump.