Looks like Trump is winning. He looks thoughtful when Clinton speaks and she looks disdainful. On show over substance he is way ahead.
The running thread is right here. http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=805690&page=4
SERIOUSLY?
You think he is WINNING?
The Hillary people say she won and the Trump people say he won and the media say they won. One thing is for sure. . . we lose.
Googling a random set of Trump supporters, Giuliani says Trump should skip the next debates, Christie says he “thinks Trump can improve”, Sessions thinks “debating is hard”, Kruthammer thinks it “was a tie, therefore Trump won”. There’s a lot of special pleading, and of course some of the more shameless supporters still are calling it a Trump victory (an “Enormous, historic victory” according to Newt), but I don’t think there’s really a case of both sides declaring victory.
I think that’s generally the case when one candidate clearly lost. IIRC, Obama supporters were willing to concede Romney won the first debate of 2012.
This is anecdotal, but even the Trump supporters I know(I know a few) think he did quite poorly.
She prepared, he did not. I think his camp admits he did little prep. It was not wise.