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Donald Trump supporters artificially manipulated the results of online polls to create a false narrative that the Republican nominee won the first presidential debate on Monday night.
The efforts originated from users of the pro-Trump Reddit community r/The_Donald and 4chan messaged boards, which bombarded around 70 polls, including those launched by Time, Fortune, and CNBC.
In this latest incarnation, multiple Reddit users enlisted the Trump-supporting masses on r/The_Donald, which has over 200,000 subscribers, by posting dozens of online polls that are vulnerable to vote brigading, bots, and other forms of manipulation that make these non-scientific surveys notoriously unreliable.
Polls that were not open to public voting consistently put Clinton ahead of Trump. In a flash poll by Public Policy Polling, Clinton led Trump 51 to 40. A CNN/ORC poll conducted immediately following the debate found significantly stronger support for Clinton, who topped Trump 62 to 27.
http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/trump-clinton-debate-online-polls-4chan-the-donald/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @03:28PM
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that Trump won the debate. He not only lost, he lost big time. The two biggest sound bites are Trump sniffing repeatedly, and Trump answering Hillary's rhetorical question about whether he paid zero Federal taxes by saying "because I'm smart".
That's why his campaign is suggesting he'll skip the other two.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 29 2016, @02:02AM
Oh, yes, Donald should skip the next two debates. Why wait until election day to concede when he could just get it over with now? That would definitely be an historic moment in American presidential politics!