Posted on 09/22/2016 1:02:12 PM PDT by upchuck
... Hllary Clinton will almost certainly win Monday night’s epic presidential debate on points — and still could lose...
... Trump won’t be particularly well-informed, and figures it won’t particularly matter — and may well be right...
... Without a teleprompter, message discipline still tends to elude him. The one-on-one format for an hour-and-a-half could make his thin knowledge painfully obvious. And any misstep or outburst that reinforces the idea that he lacks the qualities to be commander in chief would be devastating...
... The cost is that she has done more than anyone to lower the standard for Trump. It’s not as though he needs to mount a convincing, detailed defense of his tax or child care plan or anything else to invalidate Clinton’s critique of him; he just needs to seem a reasonable person...
... And then he can look for a big moment or two that will be memorable and drive the post-debate conversation in the media that is arguably as important as the debate itself...
... Hillary is both formidably well-prepared for Monday, and at significant risk. Such is the dynamic of the race and the way most voters absorb information that she could “win” on points, and still lose ground.
He should yank the earpiece out of OJ’s ear when they shake hands before the debate. She’d just freeze into catatonia and keel over.
“Hillary recites people’s names, department and institutional and committee names, legislation names.”
A cheap laptop can regurgitate all those things. I wouldn’t want it to be President, though. Unless she was the other choice.
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