The second presidential debate is turning out to be much harder to call a winner in than the first. Republican pollster Frank Luntz, for one, has named Donald Trump the unequivocal winner of the debate based on the results from his focus group: "I may have made a mistake in writing off Trump. After talking with voters tonight, he's back in this race," Luntz tweeted. Many other early polls showed Hillary Clinton as the winner, including CNN/ORC, which named her the victor 57 percent to Trump's 34 percent.
Interestingly, a YouGov poll, which sampled 812 registered voters, showed a distinct gender gap in its results. Women thought Clinton won the debate with a margin of 50 percent to 38 percent, while men thought Trump was the winner 46 percent to 43 percent.
A significant portion of the debate focused on the release of audio from 11 years ago that caught Trump engaging in a lewd conversation about his pursuit of women. Trump dismissed his comments as "locker room talk," and hit Clinton over accusations of her husband's own alleged sexual misconduct.
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Overall, YouGov showed Clinton as the winner of the debate, 47 percent to 42 percent. The margin of error in the poll is plus or minus 3.9 percent.
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