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I missed the majority of tonight’s debate. Was there a winner?
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October 7th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
McCain had a potentially popular policy proposal. Buying up and renegotiating peoples mortgages down to their current market values. Also he didn’t bother with the personal attacks, which must mean his minders have decided this isn’t going to work. A victory for the American people. Obama is riding the current momentum which is in his favor, so he didn’t risk throwing anything new into the mix. He sounded a lot more presidential than McCain and has a much better grasp on the issues. McCain was disrespectful to Obama a couple of times, but on the whole managed to sound less like a crank than he did last time. He’s still yammering on about his pork and his earmarks, which makes him sound kinda senile. He may actually get a few pity votes out of that.
You didn’t miss anything.
October 8th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Crikey, Andrew Sullivan is pretty emphatic on who he thought won:
“This was, I think, a mauling: a devastating and possibly electorally fatal debate for McCain. Even on Russia, he sounded a little out of it. I’ve watched a lot of debates and participated in many. I love debate and was trained as a boy in the British system to be a debater. I debated dozens of times at Oxofrd. All I can say is that, simply on terms of substance, clarity, empathy, style and authority, this has not just been an Obama victory. It has been a wipe-out.It has been about as big a wipe-out as I can remember in a presidential debate. It reminds me of the 1992 Clinton-Perot-Bush debate. I don’t really see how the McCain campaign survives this.”
To me it was mainly dull. I already know McCain is out of touch, I didn’t think this debate added to that. Perhaps McCain thinks he’s defeated already and that is the reason he didn’t bring up the racist stuff. Perhaps he wants to maintain a shred of dignity in the event of his loss.