Posted on 10/20/2016 8:40:12 AM PDT by Jim W N
Why do you think Trump won or not.
Where exactly did Trump land an effective blow and where did he miss some golden opportunities.
Are we getting paid for this? :)
Monday Morning Quarterbacking
I can’t believe some of the fat, easy, slow pitches right down the middle that Trump didn’t swing at. Clinton opposed Heller, but supports an individual right to bear arms? Clinton’s one issue where she thinks government has no say is preventing children from being murdered by late-term abortion? And when she complained about Putin stealing e-mails, how did he not suggest maybe she shouldn’t use a server in a bathroom closet, or leave her cell phones lying around? He seemed barely alive for the first few rounds.
When he woke up, his facial expressions were brilliant. He nodded at attacks that had some basis in legitimate differences of opinion, so when he smirked or rolled his eyes or shook his head at lies, it was as effective as interrupting her.
What’s very encouraging this morning is that I think her gaffes were so obvious that he didn’t even need to pull the trigger. He won the debates the first two times, but got destroyed in the post-debate social media and fact-checking. This time, all the buzz is about her stupid flubs and silly lies.
I thought it was mostly a draw, Trump did a little bit better.
He could have talked more about Clinton Foundation and pay for play and corruption. When HRC was talking about the Russians, he could have said “YOU made it so easy to steal out information!”
But those are details that political junkies recognize and even if they were driven home it would not change committed voter's minds.
I think he won in the undecided demographic.
Nope, just curious. I couldn’t bring myself to watch the proceedings last night. Watched the NLCS instead. So I wanted to see what others thought, to see if I could watch it later without gagging. Also thought it might be an interesting discussion.
You first?
This is just worrisome self flagellation that produces nothing substantive.
F-A-I-T-H. Faith in our stand, faith in our candidate, faith in the faults of those arrayed against us will out.
The losers that will be know they will lose and the only thing they can do now is to instill some sense apprehension, anxiety of fear of “what did we do wrong? what could we (he) have done?” Ad nauseam.
There are about 20 days left until the big reckoning and all our anxieties will be met and cemented.
If nothing here, said or done, or posited in hand wringing angst changes your opinion, the disregard it like a gnat buzzing around your ears on a summer’s eve.
Faith says that it will happen. Faith says that we will wind and faith says that the opposing ghouls have precious little time left in their reign. He WIll win.
You first?
I thought pointing out that we now have proof the violence at his rallies was coordinated by her campaign in order to slander him and his supporters was very effective.
I kept tweeting him, Kellyanne & his Family about it, I guess he doesn't read his notifications!!!
Trump won the debate. Clinton, once again, looked overly scripted, robotic, and engaged in a filibuster when asked about the Clinton Foundation pay for play operation. When asked about her support for “open borders” she ridiculously claimed it was open borders for electricity and other energy only, that ranks right up there with her assertion that her lies were because of Lincoln.
When Clinton kept bringing up Putin, Trump should have hammered her hard on the selling of 20 percent of our uranium to the Russians that she approved of, and got a big Foundation donation for, and the fact that Podesta has strong ties to Russian interests.
After she answered the questions, Trump should have reminded everyone that she has a Public and a Private position on every issue, so you can’t believe anything she says.
What were her biggest stupid flubs/lies? I’ll look for them if/when I decide to watch this thing.
Hillary definitely stumbled badly when Chris Wallace started asking about the Clinton Foundation donors and the pay to play. She tried to ramble off about AIDS in Africa, but the moderator even pointed out she was refusing to answer the question, and she definitely seemed flustered by someone daring to ask her even a single tough question.
2) When she said something about his “mistreatment of women” he could have simply said “what about your husbands RAPES and ASSAULTS” There was a brand new victim who came out yesterday.
At the very end when they did what amounted to a ‘closing statement’ I kept picturing (and hoping) Trump would say what Joe Pesci did in the courtroom scene in the movie ‘My cousin Vinny’: “Everything she said said, is bullshit”
I couldn’t bring myself to watch the proceedings last night. Watched the NLCS instead. So I wanted to see what others thought, to see if I could watch it later without gagging. And I thought this might be an interesting discussion.
How do you debate a liar who is a genius at deception and the moderator treats her as a respected “debator”? Lets not call it a debate and we can start at a level playing field to determine who one. Trump told the truth, that’s a winner everytime.
If not for two self-inflicted wounds, Trump would have won by a knockout. As it is, he won on points.
1.) His bombastic, “No body respects women more than I do,” fell flat.
2.) He should have phrased the “Accept the outcome of the election” in terms of “If we see signs of election fraud we will fight to correct the injustice the way Al Gore fought in 2000.” (I can’t believe he wasn’t ready for that question.)
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The positives:
1.)Trump hit on all the issues the Rust Belt battleground states are concerned with.
2.) Hillary’s creepy evil smile did not help her.
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