Following Monday night’s presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, a CNN/ORC instapoll showed Clinton winning the debate by a large margin.
A CNN/ORC poll of debate watchers released after the event found 62% felt Clinton won compared to 27% for Trump. The poll suggests the debate audience was a bit more Democratic than the public as a whole, about on par with the Democratic tilt in the audience that watched the first debate in 2008 between Obama and John McCain.
Clinton might want to hold off on the victory lap though. In 2012, Governor Mitt Romney’s performance in the first debate was considered very good—actually by the same margin in an instapoll.
CNN/ORC gives Clinton a 62-27 win in the instapoll. Roughly the same as Romney’s 67-25 victory.
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) September 27, 2016
