| Shimmying and sniffling , our least favorite Chihuahua attributes, were the top body-language distractions at what was otherwise a relatively issue-laden first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Monday night. Much like that PlayStation we got for Christmas when we were 12, this was the grown-up debate that we all hoped we'd get even though we didn't really think we deserved it after the year we had. Check out the top takeaways here. |
| All of America's most pressing issues, plus Rosie O'Donnell |
| No mention of tiny hands or who would pick out the china for state dinners with China. Instead, the cryptic debate topics managed to cover the top concerns for American voters ( per the latest Pew Research Center poll), including: |
| Economy (84% very important) |
| Clinton: "We also have to make the economy fairer. That starts with raising the national minimum wage and also guarantee, finally, equal pay for women's work." |
| Trump: "Under my plan, I'll be reducing taxes tremendously, from 35 percent to 15 percent for companies, small and big businesses. That's going to be a job creator like we haven't seen since Ronald Reagan." |
| Terrorism (80% very important) |
| Clinton: "We're working with NATO, the longest military alliance in the history of the world, to really turn our attention to terrorism. We're working with our friends in the Middle East, many of which, as you know, are Muslim majority nations." |
| Trump: "I think we have to get NATO to go into the Middle East with us, in addition to surrounding nations, and we have to knock the hell out of ISIS, and we have to do it fast, when ISIS formed in this vacuum created by Barack Obama and Secretary Clinton." |
| Foreign policy (75% very important) |
| Trump: "Number one, the 28 countries of NATO, many of them aren't paying their fair share. Number two -- and that bothers me, because we should be asking -- we're defending them, and they should at least be paying us what they're supposed to be paying by treaty and contract." |
| Clinton: "You know, NATO as a military alliance has something called Article 5, and basically it says this: An attack on one is an attack on all. And you know the only time it's ever been invoked? After 9/11, when the 28 nations of NATO said that they would go to Afghanistan with us to fight terrorism, something that they still are doing by our side." |
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| Health care (74% very important) |
| Not covered. |
| Gun policy (72% very important) |
| Clinton: "(W)e've got to get guns out of the hands of people who should not have them." |
| Trump: "(W)e have to take the guns away from these people that have them and they are bad people that shouldn't have them." |
| Rosie O'Donnell (0% very important) |
| Clinton: "... this is a man who has called women pigs, slobs and dogs ..." |
| Trump: "I said very tough things to her, and I think everybody would agree that she deserves it and nobody feels sorry for her." |
| Gah, what happened there at the end? What a weird way to wrap up the evening. It was like watching "2001: A Space Odyssey" and all of a sudden there's an unexplained space fetus. |
| LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOUR NUMBERS LA LA LA |
| The past eight weeks have shown polls tightening, whether it's the two-way Clinton-Trump matchup or the Clinton-Trump-Johnson-Stein free-for-all. Still, Hillary supporters used Nate Silver's projections as a security blanket for poll-induced anxiety ... until the Now-cast, the most volatile model of the bunch, turned on them early Monday. It showed Trump with a 54.9% chance of winning if the election were held right then. Responses ranged from "you're only saying this for the clicks" to "you've been wrong in the past" to "stop making predictions immediately." Presumably, the commenters all went and locked themselves in a quiet place to bask in the warm glow of The Upshot. |
| Late evening brought out poll debates on the right. Scientific polls that showed a Clinton victory -- including CNN (62%-37%), Breitbart/Gravis (48%-43%) and PPP (51%-40%). But Trump supporters ( and even Trump himself) touted the online self-selected polls that showed him winning, including Breitbart, Variety and The Hill. What's the difference? The first one is like pouring yourself a bowl of Lucky Charms. The second one is like handing your toddler a box of Lucky Charms and telling him he can pick out whichever pieces he wants. |
| More from the campaign trail |
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| Priorities |
| Searches for Clinton and Trump outpaced searches for porn on Google last night. Nice work, everyone! But wait, what about the people who were Googling all three at once EW EW EW |
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