Political Debate

I had the opportunity to watch the political debate last week and found it to be a lot different than I was expecting. I knew a little bit about each candidate going into this and was somewhat familiar with their characters, but I was kind of surprised at both of them in this debate. For one, I was a bit surprised at how like-able Hilary seemed to be.
I'm not in favor of Hilary and I guess if it really came down to it, I would choose Trump over her, but I really found some of her arguments and statements to be reasonable. She really did sound good I thought, and I guess I was a bit surprised by that. To be honest, I don't know a whole lot about the issues that they debated, and so if I didn't even know who Trump and Hilary were in walking into this, I probably could have been swayed either way. But the interesting thing to me was that it was so difficult to think that Trump was really doing a good job in this debate at all. Just the way that he presented his ideas and the claims that he made, he didn't really do in his favor.
Due to the above reasons, it was really interesting to see social media explode during and after this debate. It was kind of difficult to find many people that even favored one of these candidates. Someone would post something against Trump, and right after that they would post something bashing Hilary. The funny thing was, a lot of the posts and pictures that I saw in social media weren't even in regard to the topics and issues being discussed. A lot of it was in regard to their appearances, the way they talk, and their backgrounds.
Unfortunately, I don't feel like many of our culture are really accurately informed about the concerns and issues at hand, but the thing is that it is SO hard to find accurate information! Everything is skewed in some way or another. And so because of that, a lot of people aren't even talking about the real issues, just talking about what the radio had to say this morning, or what Trump's hairpiece looks like on the front of a magazine. Media is full of skewed information and opinions that are constantly misinterpreted as facts.  I feel like this is one of the contributing factors to this whole election being such a mess.