WS More or Less: Who Won the US Presidential Debate?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
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🗓️ 30 September 2016
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Polling on the first TV debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump appears to be divided over who won it. But not all polls are equal. If the people being polled aren’t representative of the population at large, then their responses may not tell you anything useful. And when internet polls can be hijacked by online activists, they can throw up some pretty strange results.
(Photo: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton first presidential debate. Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service your guide to the numbers behind |
| 0:05.3 | what Donald Trump said this week. part in their first televised debate together. |
| 0:25.0 | I said she doesn't have the stamina and I don't believe she does have the stamina. |
| 0:31.0 | As soon as he travels to 112 countries, he can talk to me about |
| 0:34.9 | stamina. |
| 0:35.9 | This is a man who has called women pigs, slobs, and dogs. |
| 0:42.1 | But we're not fact-checking anything they said during the debate, but rather what |
| 0:46.0 | happened in the aftermath when the polls came out giving the public's verdict on who |
| 0:50.5 | won. Almost every single poll had us winning the debate against crooked Hillary Clinton, big league, big league. |
| 1:01.1 | There were a couple of other snap polls. |
| 1:04.0 | CNN found that actually a scientific study found that |
| 1:08.0 | Hillary Clinton absolutely ran away with the debate |
| 1:10.0 | 62% to 27%. |
| 1:12.0 | Donald Trump won't be sharing that poll. 62% to 27%. |
| 1:12.7 | Donald Trump won't be sharing that poll. |
| 1:14.4 | He will be sharing the Drudge reports online poll |
| 1:17.6 | which showed 80% said that he won the debate. |
| 1:22.2 | There were two types of poll after the debate. |
| 1:25.0 | The standard opinion poll carried out on a balanced sample by recognised polling companies |
| 1:30.0 | and the online polls where anyone who was interested could vote. |
| 1:33.2 | These had hundreds of thousands of votes. |
| 1:35.7 | The traditional polls said Hillary won. |
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