I’m shocked with what I’m about to say because I detest this fellow but the most presentable, consistent and composed person at the debate today was Ted Cruz.
Everybody else came off as “a sprinter and not a marathoner”, which is shaping up to be the theme of this electoral cycle. Fiorina lost the most endearing characteristics which were her self-control and unflappability and started looking like a very nervous crow. Rubio was swallowing words, constantly misspeaking, and then lost it completely by the end. Trump’s sprint had ended back in September, so he was barely awake in this debate.
The moderators were the worst this time around. One had something wrong with his voice and looked very ill and not altogether there. Another one looked like she had a seasonal pass to a plastic surgeon’s office. Questions were rambling and very boring. I guess, the candidates managed to terrify everybody into being completely anodyne.
And hey, did anybody understand why Christie was kicked out while Rand Paul was allowed to stay on? Christie, at least, had that popular drug addiction video. What does Paul have?
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With all the separate posts on a single topic, it’s a bit hard to keep track of the various comments on the debate.
Probably just as well, since the only sage comments on the debate that I DIDN’T EVEN WATCH were mine. 🙂
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And hey, did anybody understand why Christie was kicked out while Rand Paul was allowed to stay on?
He didn’t meet some polling threshold. This is arbitrary when about half the people don’t even have polling numbers within the margin of error for any poll. shrug Jindal is definitely in it for the low key book tour. He just released some amateur historian book
I would have loved to have seen these candidates justify their optimum Laffer curve level of taxation instead of blabbering about it because most people watching would take it as an article of faith. You’d think there’d be research on it with a useful range since it’s been around since the 1970s, but, no.
I detest this fellow but the most presentable, consistent and composed person at the debate today was Ted Cruz.
He definitely reigned in his smarmbucket tendencies.
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I have low expectations for this crop of Republican presidential timber. So far, they not disappointed me.
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New events on the marathon campaign trail – a season of surprises.
“The people have spoken: Bernie Sanders will be the next president of the United States…
Since 2007, WIU has conducted a complicated mock presidential election one year before the real thing. An earlier, intermittent version of the simulation started at the university in 1975 and moved over to the University of Missouri for a while. The mock election has always picked the candidate who went on to actually win the White House.”
http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/11/bernie_sanders_victory_is_inev.html
and
“In a new McClatchy-Marist poll, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) leads Republican candidate Donald Trump by a landslide margin of 12 percentage points, 53 to 41. In the McClatchy poll, Sanders also leads former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) by a landslide margin of 10 points, 51 to 41.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/259812-in-new-shock-poll-sanders-has-landslides-over-both
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