6 Takeaways from the First Presidential Debate + Who Won?

[eveofrevolution]

Hillary Clinton stepped onto the debate stage Monday night determined to show that only one candidate is ready to be president.

Clinton poked, prodded and quoted Trump's own words, goading the famously thin-skinned Republican nominee. Trump took the bait, repeatedly interrupting angrily or dismissively throughout the night.He couldn't resist

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[inkstainedlips]

Hillary definitely won last night, but I'm curious how that will affect the polls.

My mom is so convinced gangs of muslim men are going to come into the country to rape all the women (never mind all the white rapist here already) that she will vote for Trump no matter what. There's no reasoning with her. Also her crazy bf has her believing the Clinton's have had people assassinated. Oi.

[eveofrevolution]

[inkstainedlips]

Kasich was the least awful of the bunch so props to your mom for that and also being smart enough to vote for Hillary.

[liz_marcs]

I feel like I have a weird mom. She's a straight-up older retiree, and she's just about the only one in her cohort that supports BLM and thinks Trump is dangerous.

She's not crazy about Hillary, but she thinks that it's not even a contest over who's more qualified.

She was telling me just the other day that people she's known for *years* are getting verbally violent over the fact that she refuses to vote for Trump. She said they become completely unhinged to the point that you can't even talk to them. And this is the *Massachusetts.*

It's a big part of the reason why she's terrified that we're all going to be in for a nasty surprise on election day.

[screamingintune]

my mom is 67 and very liberal and firmly pro-Hillary and so are her sisters. as women it means the world to them that we're heading toward a first woman president. I don't think it's particularly weird, but then again I've always had a very liberal family so

[liz_marcs]

My Dad was more liberal than my Mom, so I grew up in opposite land than a lot of people around me.

I think the reason why my parents were relatively liberal is because they grew up working class in families that lived paycheck to two days before the next paycheck (yeah, government cheese and flour was a factor in their childhoods). At least in my childhood it was paycheck to paycheck.

But I also think the big deciding factor is that my parents also dealt with a lot of people outside their comfort zones for most of their lives, so that might be why my 70+ year-old mother has a bit more empathy for POC and immigrants in general than you'd expect for someone in her age bracket.

Much as I miss my Dad, I'm kind of glad he's not alive to see this election. He'd be absolutely heartbroken.

[redstar826]

My mom is 66, and very left wing. (she was a Bernie supporter, now voting for Clinton). She's had a few run ins with Trump supporters and I fear one of these days she's going to slap someone because she hates him with a passion

[amyura]

Meanwhile, Trump's openly called on his supporters to assassinate Clinton.

[inkstainedlips]

That's a really good point.