TV Audience Falls Sharply For Second Trump-Clinton Debate

Among debate watchers, some 53% said Clinton came out on top Sunday while 32% felt that Trump won.

This comes on the heels of the second debate and of the fallout of a tape of Donald Trump making lewd comments about women.

“Despite winning the second debate in a landslide (every poll), it is hard to do well when Paul Ryan and others give zero support!”

According to the RealClearPolitics average of polls in Virginia, Clinton has a 7.5-point lead over Trump, 44.3 percent to 36.8 percent.

The survey, which was conducted before Sunday night’s debate, represents a 5-point jump for Clinton over the past month. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson received 9 percent support and Green Party candidate Jill Stein received 3 percent. In the survey, 44 percent of likely voters declared the Democratic nominee the victor, while 34 percent said Trump won, and 21 percent said neither one. Thirty-four percent of likely voters said Trump won the debate.

Still, some female voters said they planned to vote for Trump despite being appalled by his latest remarks.

Pennsylvania is a linchpin to Trump’s hope to carry blue-collar voters in the Rust Belt, but the odds have always been stacked against him.

‘That means results have less volatility than some other polls, but also means the poll lags somewhat in responding to major events in the campaign, ‘ it says.

Trump was already struggling with women voters, while Clinton is looking to run up her margins with them to make up for her challenges among men.

In the end though, “voters view Clinton more negatively than positively by 10 points”, as the Washington Post notes, compared to viewing Trump more negatively than positively by 34 points.

The poll of 2,001 registered voters was conducted on Monday and included 1,757 likely voters with a margin of error of +/- three percentage points. The candidates won’t feel the full effect of the scandal in the poll until this weekend.

This survey was conducted to two thousand and one registered voters, the margin of error is three percent, and is in line with the results of previous surveys, developed by CNN or YouGove, who saw Clinton as the victor.