Who won the presidential debate? Our experts are divided

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : On healthcare, Trump said: "I have a concept of a plan."
57% : If Trump's rallies empty early, Trump claimed that hers are bussed-in - and I can believe it.
55% : Anyone watching learnt nothing about pre-college education or Social Security.
51% : Go granular, and you might judge Trump to be a centrist.
47% : Both looked good (Kamala rocked a show-jumper look) and were pretty disciplined, till Harris cleverly deflected from a question about immigration to suggest people find Trump's rallies boring - and Trump lost his cool, segwaying into that Lincolnesque monologue about migrants eating dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio.
46% : "Perhaps we do not have, in the candidate to my right, the temperament or the ability to not be confused about facts," she said.
37% : Her strength came in her understanding of Trump ─ a man she has not met at all during this campaign─ and his hatred of being humiliated.
35% : We should be "lifting people up," she said, "not beating people down" - adding that Trump was "beating people down" rather than, uh, "lifting people up."Yet punching down was almost all the lady did, telling us that Trump sold the country out to China, is extreme, was somehow responsible for Covid's economic effects.
34% : The ABC moderators, themselves dressed as the cast of Double Indemnity, challenged Trump on this, as they did almost everything.
30% : Instead, as Harris bemoaned that Trump wants to drag the country backwards, they were happy to revisit 2020 and the January 6 riots.
30% : Kamala believes in no-restriction abortion; Trump is for state control and exemptions.
26% : The race is close and will likely stay that way, which I count as a narrow win for Trump, for Harris didn't blow him out of the water.
23% : You, said Trump, are "weak and stupid."
19% : Trump was furious, and immediately began to ramble about illegal migrants eating dogs and cats -- a recent and bizarre Republican conspiracy theory.
18% : Trump fell for it: hook line and sinker.

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