Survey: Clinton Won Debate

According to a brand new Politico/Morning Consult poll, 42% of respondents said Hillary Clinton won Sunday night's presidential debate, while only 28% said Donald Trump did. Another 30% said they didn't know.

The debate moderators were tabbed as being more favorable to Clinton by a wide margin among those who thought they leaned one way or the other.

While 43% said CNN's Anderson Cooper was "fair and impartial," 40% said he favored Clinton while only 5% said he favored Trump. While 40% said ABC's Martha Raddatz was "fair and impartial," 40% said she favored Clinton and only 6% said she was more favorable to Trump.

Large portions of the survey respondents found the debate "depressing" (46%) or "awful" and "bad for the country" (42%), but 47% said it was entertaining nonetheless, and 55% said one word that would not describe it was "boring."

Donald Trump got high marks for the descriptors "sexist" (60%), racist (51%) and out of touch with average Americans (51%).

Clinton was described as overly secretive by 63% and corrupt by 55% (Trump's corrupt number was 44%).

But only 13% of the registered Republicans surveyed said Trump should get out of the race.

The online survey was of 2,001 registered voters polled Oct. 10. It has a margin of error of 2 percentage points.

John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.