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Home Front: Politix
Debate Monitors Deliver Great News for Trump With Independents, Devastating News for Harris
2024-09-12
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[Red State] There's a lot of palaver about who won the presidential debate on Tuesday, both in terms of style and substance.

But ultimately, the person who "wins" isn't the person who can make the most weird faces or have the greatest throwaway line. It's the person who can get the undecideds and the independents

The problem for Kamala Harris is that she had a need to define herself, unlike President Donald Trump. What the independent voters wanted to hear was how Harris is different than Joe Biden, whose policies they have not liked, and what are her policies for the future?

As I noted in a couple of my earlier stories about folks in the CBS and Reuters focus groups, the voters didn't feel they got those answers. CNN also tracked that Trump actually gained points on the most important issue for people, leading her by 20 points on the economy, 23 points on immigration, and six on leadership as commander-in-chief.
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Posted by: badanov   2024-09-12 23:32  

#6  ^ MSM: "LIES! No dogs served as militia in Springfield!!11eleventy!"
Posted by: Frank G   2024-09-12 20:13  

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Posted by: badanov   2024-09-12 20:03  

#4  It is tough getting the business from my wife for 10 minutes for not loading the dishwasher like she does.

Guy went 90 with two and a half women just making shit up.

So far my barometers have been largely quiet, the best post debate slam being something like, "We have the most robust economy in the world, why would you want to elect the guy with 8 bankruptcies?"

What I'm not seeing is pro Harris she did so well! other than the shills and influencers. Even the Taylor Swift payoff wasn't about how well Harris performed, just some generic I Did My Homework bullshit.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2024-09-12 15:34  

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Posted by: Skidmark   2024-09-12 13:36  

#2  All the spin I've heard about the debate is that it was a disaster for Trump. I dunno. I only watched about two minutes of it but I could see in that two minutes two important facts.

1) Trump came off looking like an angry old man. Well, they tried to kill him. I'd be pissed off too but it's not the way to win an election.

2) ABC was most definitely interjecting Democrat propaganda with their real time "fact checking" of almost everything Trump said. But who is checking the checkers?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2024-09-12 13:14  

#1  Tiny "focus group". Call me when you have some statistically significant numbers.
Posted by: Mercutio   2024-09-12 09:39  

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