No Contest: Hillary Clinton Dominates the First Presidential Debate

I suspect I’m not the only one who looked on tonight with dread and anxiety as this surreal presidential election became inescapably real. When Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump walked onto the debate stage tonight, it was against a backdrop of a tightening race—Nate Silver, for example, announced earlier in the day that his polling models now gave Trump a 46 percent chance of winning. The New York Times cited estimates that 100 million people might watch the debate. And it seemed that something more was at stake than the next news cycle, and perhaps a bump in the polls. For all her flaws and foibles, the hopes of all of us who want to believe our country is better than Trump, and resilient enough to stand up to demagogues and bigots, rested on the shoulders of the first woman nominated by a major party for the presidency.

Let there be no equivocation: Hillary Clinton delivered.

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