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October 7th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
But McCain knows how to get Bin Laden.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Eat it, you geezer.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
My friends, what, wha, my friends? What happened? My friends, don’t you like me? My friends, look, that one is naive.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
That man has run the most negative campaign in the history of the universe. How can he show so much disrespect to such a major figure of American histrionics?
October 7th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
I think Obama won — here’s my take on it.
http://culturedecoded.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/analysis-the-second-presidential-debate/
October 7th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
But McCain knows how to get Bin Laden.
McCain has a plan to win this election. Don’t you worry. He knows how to win. He’s won elections election before. But he’s not going to tip his hand, my friends. He’s not going to telegraph his intentions.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Obama kicked ass. I don’t know if it was Matt Y. or Nate Silver but Obama keeps doing better on the economy and health care and that’s all voters care about. So he wins. Handily. Again.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Barring a massive mistake, this is Game Over.
John
October 7th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
It wasn’t anywhere near that close.
October 8th, 2008 at 12:02 am
Maybe I’m just too much of a junkie, but these are so incredibly boring.
October 8th, 2008 at 12:02 am
These debates, not these threads!
October 8th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Well, duh. I’d have thought after two lost debates McCain/Palin would change tactics, but they used the exact same playbook, and so the result was completely predictable.
October 8th, 2008 at 12:42 am
Oops–reading down further I see Matt already made the exact same point about McCain not changing tactics. Still a good point, though.
October 8th, 2008 at 2:36 am
By the way, the moment of the night was David Brooks on Charlie Rose quoting Megan McArdle. It just seemed so perfect…there were little starbursts of stupidity shooting around the room.
October 8th, 2008 at 5:24 am
As is my custom by now, I’ve analyzed the words used by the speakers in the latest US presidential debate. I provide a bubble graph visualizing length of words, sentences and speech. I also investigated a gut feeling that there was something odd about the distribution of thanks between the different players (bar chart). Finally, improved “word couds” for every speaker (this time including all meaningful words). See and read about it at my Word Face-Off blog.
October 8th, 2008 at 6:07 am
Celeste Fremon at WitnessLA caught this desperate move on FOX:
In a very odd moment I happened to catch at FOX News, conservative polster Frank Luntz, who had gathered together a focus group to watch the debate, asked for a show of hands as to who won the thing. Unfortunately for Luntz, the majority said Obama had won. This didn’t work for Luntz. Nor did it work for FOX anchor, Brit Hume, who began looking a bit sickly.
Luntz decided he could save what was turning into an icky situation. (After all, he’s Frank Luntz always the smartest guy in the room, just ask him.) So he eyed one guy whom he’d determined was a McCain supporter and said, “But people said that McCain was better on the economy, why did you think so?” (Or words to that effect.) The McCain guy immediately catches the tossed ball. “Oh yes,” he says and proceeded to expound as to why.
So, says a slightly cheered Hume, the majority thought that Senator McCain did better on the economy?
Yes, beams Luntz. But then he made a fatal mistake. He turned to his focus group members and asked them how many thought McCain did the best on the economy.
Around six out of the 25 panel members raised their hands. At that juncture, Luntz was not foolish enough to ask how many think that Obama did better on the economy. Instead, he simply lied. “Okay, that’s about half who thought McCain did better,” says Luntz, lying like a rug, as the camera quickly cuts away.
http://witnessla.com/
October 8th, 2008 at 7:42 am
The “McCain just couldn’t bring himself to make the sorts of accusations that his campaign is making about Obama” schtick that the big media people are putting about strikes me as silly. I think “McCain is a chickensh*t little ass who is willing to farm out his dirty work” seems much more apt.
October 8th, 2008 at 8:01 am
I didn’t think that they’d ask an Ayres question.
They ask. Obama answers. The “issue” is dead.
It’s only potent as an insinuation.
-Weren’t you in the company of a terrorist?
-Yes, but fortunately his terrorist cooties had died 25 prior. Sarah Palin, otoh … AIG … John McCain … Keating 5 …
So, no. They weren’t eager to let Obama turn the tables on them.
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