NEW YORK — Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton took a page out of Republican Donald Trump’s playbook in their Monday night TV debate to beat him at his own game. In just a few hours, Clinton saw her odds of moving back into the White House rise from a high 69% before the debate to 73%, according to prediction market aggregator PredictWise. Trump’s chances slumped accordingly. "This is a large shift" and relatively rare, happening only once or twice per election cycle, said PredictWise founder David Rothschild. Clinton’s odds of winning several battleground states also improved over a comparable four-hour period: by nine points in North Carolina, four points in New Hampshire, and three points each in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Colorado. Snap polls after the debate similarly favoured Clinton, including 62% of respondents in a CNN poll and 51% in a survey by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling. Even the Mexican peso, increasingly a barometer of Trump-related anxiety, ral...
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