2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSo who do you think won the debate tonight
besides Obama...also how do you set up a poll on here now?
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)and I think Satan's Crusaders won tonight
elleng
(130,871 posts)phleshdef
(11,936 posts)dimbear
(6,271 posts)Could be wrong, they're not really very predictable.
MjolnirTime
(1,800 posts)Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)I really missed the audience feedback we have seen in the prior nights of long knives. I get that they are likely hand picked, but it was cool to hear what lines were sticking their landings and which were total misses. Quips like 'self-deportation' and Cuban 'jihad network' were hilarious and really deserved a live response on whether they stuck the landing or missed completely as opposed to waiting for analyst deconstruction. Tonight was hard to call, IMO because it was so damn bland.
Not sure what I am hoping for in Florida. Obama would destroy any of them in the general (IMO), so am looking for the entertainment factor at this point and leaning either The Froth or Crazy Uncle Ron for the 31st just to keep it going for a while.
madamesilverspurs
(15,800 posts)Instead of watching the silly thing, I was with a group of OFA volunteers phonebanking. The conversations were, shall we say, energetic. It was clear that the callees had been watching the debates. One woman on our list wasn't home and her husband answered the phone; he asked if he could take a message, and when our caller identified himself and gave his purpose for calling, the husband admitted to being a republican thoroughly disgusted by the GOP field; he said he'd be voting for Obama. Most of the other conversations included some negative mention of the debates. Our callers generally finished the conversations smiling. Yeah, we didn't see the debate, we talked to lots of people who did, we talked to lots of people who are going to be voting for Obama. We're smiling. We won. I won.
napi21
(45,806 posts)I HOPE there a lot more like that! I have to watch myself when I see what a dismal field the Pubs have that I don't get TOO optomistic. I keep telling meself to stop thinking logically because non of the Pubs think that way. You've brightened my evening with that news
! Thanks.
monmouth
(21,078 posts)it on his Fox show, ranted about what a horrid field it was, "Is this the best they have?" Good stuff.
Chipper Chat
(9,678 posts)I was watching Rachel - then remembered the debate - switched over to NBC - could only stand 3 minutes of the boring crap - switched back to Rachel.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)Although he's still not good at the attack stuff he did it somewhat effectively last night. Gingrich seemed uncomfortable at times and wasnt as animated in his lying tirades as he was in SC.. probably due to lack of crowd interaction.
PRETZEL
(3,245 posts)but from what I did see, it's not who won, but who lost.
Both R-money and Gingrich sounded like spoiled little brats who wanted nothing more than to one up the other. Pissing contest in the truest sense.
Neither Paul or Santatorium where given much time, but I think they won by default.
Mosaic
(1,451 posts)For staying civilized, compared to the barbarians to their north. Obama keeps looking better and better.