Poll: Half of voters relying on presidential debates to help decide their vote

[n2doc]

Half of the country's likely voters say they will rely on high-profile debates between presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to help make their decision, according to a new poll.

The results of the Reuters/Ipsos poll were released Monday, hours before Trump and Clinton are slated to square off in the first of three presidential debates.

Some 50 percent of likely voters surveyed said they think the debates will help inform their decision. Of those, 10 percent say they aren't leaning toward either candidate.

Another 39 percent in the poll said the debates will not help inform their vote, while 11 percent are not sure how the debates would affect their decision.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/297736-poll-half-of-voters-relying-on-debates-to-decide

[appleannie1]

1. I could not tolerate 90 minutes of Trump. I made up my mind the day Bernie lost to Hillary.

[BootinUp]

2. So when we talk about an uninformed (dumb) electorate

we probably aren't too far off.

[global1]

3. What A Crock.....

Yesterday it was a third of the voters would rely on tonight's debate to decide. Before the days over we'll probably see a poll that all the voters would rely on tonight's debate to decide.

Don't believe these polls - they're all bogus - just like Trump.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

4. I've said, for many years, in many ways, that

Roughly half the uhmerkan population are dimwitted troglodytes. This poll supports and reinforces my opinion.

[mnhtnbb]

5. I'm in the 39% and because the debates won't affect my decision I won't be watching.

Instead, my husband and I will be attending a "Loire Valley" dinner given at our local French bistro.

[still_one]

6. It really comes down to this. 21% can't decide if they are racists or not.

We have a trump/pence ticket who is who is proud of their bigotry, racism, sexism, homophobia, and xenophbia. endorsed by the KKK, and every white supremacist group in the country, and 21% are on the fence!!!

Then those 21% are either complete idiots, or have racist, sexists tendencies to begin with.

[tonyt53]

7. If they haven't been paying attention up to this point, they will make a poor decision when voting

[ansible]

8. It's always been like that

The Nixon-Kennedy debates were instrumental in getting Kennedy elected.

[Kilgore]

9. Not sure what their criteria will be

I suspect many folks base their evaluation on meaningless things like, who had the best zinger, who looked presidential, body language. Otherwords, bullshit.