The survey took place October 8-10, and those people questioned after the debate gave Clinton only a 7-point lead over Trump, regardless of whether it was head-to-head or a four-way matchup.
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There is a correlation between scores in post-debate polls and shifts in the polls further down the line, albeit with some considerable noise.
This is only one poll, and the sample size is small. Clinton’s lead is up by 3 percentage points from last week. It is worth waiting for more polls to come out before jumping to any strong conclusions. But with all of those asterisks applied, the results of the poll are dramatic.
Clinton has a sizeable national advantage over Trump but she enjoys a mere two point lead over him in Florida in polls taken by NBC and Gravis this month. In a one-on-one race, she leads by 14. When it responds with quotes from the man himself, users can type “Source”, receiving video or text evidence that Trump said those things.
When asked to pick between the two candidates, about 44 per cent of women chose Clinton while 29 per cent selected Trump – roughly the same proportion as measured in polls conducted before the weekend.
His favorability rating now stands at 30 percent positive, 63 percent negative.
There may be some trickle-down effect, too.
Monday morning following the second presidential debate, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan told Republican Party lawmakers he will no longer defend Trump as president and exclusively focus on defending the party’s majority.
Many seemed to be turned off by Trump’s tactics of dodging his own personal issues such as the explicit tape released earlier this week claiming the he could grab a lady by her gentiles because he is a star.
She not alone in the Sunshine State today. That’s before the tape.
The Republican Party’s civil war raged again this morning on Donald Trump’s favorite platform, Twitter. The good news for him, such as it is, is that he’s clawed his way back from the brink before.
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“With four weeks to go until election day the race is now substantially shifted in Hilary Clinton’s favour”.
