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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[bnmc2005]

Petty debate criticism: Clinton can give someone a mean librarian look better than almost anyone. Avoid.

There's nothing sexist about this comment at all.

[petecarl]

mte.

[lightframes]

And it's not even true because she didn't frown at any point, lol

[screamingintune]

mte

[moonbladem]

Speaking of manterruptions:

[bnmc2005]

Trump interrupting Clinton; 51
Clinton interrupting Trump: 17

Good LORD.

and all those interruptions of Trump by Holt, about 20 of them were "You did say... ." "Yes, you did... " "The record shows otherwise" over IRAQ.

[roseemrys]

I wish Lester had followed up on his interruptions because he would give Trump 2 minutes but he would talk for at least 5 minutes. Also, the head avatars in this chart are cute.

[moonshaz]

OT, but I just want to say that I love those little avatars. They're freaking adorable.

[redstar826]

I don't know how people sat through the whole debate. I tuned in for like 12 minutes when I got home and then gave up (I turned on when they started talking about race) because I got too annoyed.

[londonsquare]

I was doing a 6 hour drive yesterday and my dad was like, 'why don't you listen to the debate on the radio?' I told him I did not want to cause an accident because I'm sure my blood pressure would rise to astronomical levels listening to that pontificating hellbeast speak.

[redstar826]

exactly. I am trying (and failing miserably haha) to limit my exposure to election coverage for the sake of my own health and to not drive everyone around me crazy when I get all riled up

[lightframes]

The first 30 minutes were very difficult for me because he was legit yelling and I felt bad for her. But after he got tired she started to shine.

[ladycyndra]

I'm with her.

[liliaeth]

So Clinton should have solved all of America's issues, which the country has been dealing with for decades, while first being a First Lady, and for her what was it, eight years as a senator, and then four years or so as secretary of state.

Keeping in mind that as First Lady she had no real authority, and she still got more done than most other First Ladies before her. As a senator, she was only one senator, among what, a hundred? Half of which stood against her, and she still got as much done as any single person could. (with republicans fighting her every step of the way) And it's not like secretaries of state deal with domestic issues like minimum wage and stuff...

Solutions like these don't come easy, but she'll sure as hell get a lot more of them done as president, than as a single senator.

It's funny how they love to both spin her as a criminal mastermind, while at the same time claiming she didn't get anything done...

[liz_marcs]

See, but even as FLOTUS she tried to get involved in health care reform and her version included some form of single-payer for low-income people. Her entire effort was completely torpedoed.

So it's not like she didn't actually try, even as first lady.