But throughout the night and well into Tuesday morning, people on Twitter shared dozens of debate polls that seemingly concluded that Trump had won the debateCNN must have been biased against Trump. Pundits were elitists. The media conspiracy against Trump, in their minds, had never been more clear.*
The science for their case, however, was far murkier.*
Take a look for example, at the polls shared *by conservative news aggregation site, The Drudge Report. At the top of their list was a seemingly scientific post-debate poll claiming to come from ABC News. According to ABC News, Drudge claimed, 54% of respondents would **w be voting for Trump, followed by 21% for Jill Stein, 15% for Gary Johnson, and just 10% for Hillary Clinton, despite the fact that Stein and Johnson didn't even compete in the debate. Read more...