Posted on 09/17/2015 10:54:13 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Sure, shes had a rough few months, but shes still the massive favorite to win the Democratic nomination. But more than that, its clearer than ever that these people are jokers. Well, that was all kind of...interminable. For a time there in the middle, I thought Ben Carson had strolled out to perform some elective surgery. I guess we kind of agree that Carly Fiorina won, since she did manage to convey some real or at least manufactured-real passion on about three or four occasions.
But you wanna know who really won that debate? Hillary Clinton. Go ahead, go ahead, laugh all you want. Yes, her stock is selling awfully low right now. Nate Silver says, accurately, that she is in a self-reinforcing funk right now and that theres no obvious way out for the time being.
But consider. She is still the overwhelming favorite to be the Democratic nominee. She still leads the Republicans in a strong majority of the general election head-to-head match-ups. And thats after two horrible media months in which, by Silvers count, she has endured 29 negative news stories while enjoying just one positive one. All that, and shes still mostly ahead.
And being the Democrat, she has the Electoral College advantage that any plausible Democrat has these days because the GOP has just positioned itself too far right to win states that it regularly won back in the Nixon-to-Bush Sr. era. That advantage is either 257 electoral votes that tilt strongly Democratic, or 247, if you put Iowa and New Hampshire on the fence as, for example, Larry Sabato does.
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The press is so vicious maybe the Pubs will get sympathy votes too?
Tomasky is an idiot.
Great, they’re now pushing iCarly as much as they pushed Heb! Boosh previously.
maybe a name change is in order
the Daily RUBE??
The #1 winner is... CNN!
http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/17/media/cnn-republican-debate-ratings/index.html
Wednesdays prime time GOP debate averaged 22.9 million viewers, making it the most-watched program in CNNs history.
Of course getting the Rs to attack each other for 3 hours didn’t hurt Hillary any.
Stopped reading at “Daily Beast”.
Please. The polite expression is "Tomasky is a low-information voter."
Hillary won’t win any head to head with any Republican. The country HATES her. If it didn’t it would not have nominated a no-account dimwit ahead of her in 2008. And she is worse, in every way now than she was then.
Whistling through the graveyard.
Partisan Media Shill Alert!
She “won” the NY senate seat through outright fraud and disabled voting machines.
In the lead-up to the election she repeatedly said she WOULD be senator, it was a setup from the start.
Her “I’m not listening” tour of NY was full of people shouting at her “GO HOME”.
I know she’s going to be pulling dirty crap, unless something happens to her campaign to completely flatline her bid.
A liberal thinks Hillary won. What a shock.
Tomasky is an idiot. .................................. Go easy on him, he is only following the orders from the Democrat Commissariat. They will never support Trump or anyone else for that matter. Do you think if Fiorina ran Tomasky would vote for her? Worthless dribble from a worthless source.
better yet- stop allowing that trash to be posted on FR...
Tomasky? What a fool...
Why wouldn’t you or I think Hillary won?
When the Republican Party chooses hostile CNN to moderate the debate, and when the candidates choose to ping on Trump and ping on each other rather than make the case for personal liberty, free markets, limited government regulation, strong military forces and assertive foreign policy, instead of beating the hell out of the media and beating the hell out of Hillary, Sanders, Biden, and Warren, the of course Hillary won.
If the Republicans were smart, they would present the candidates as representatives of conservatism, where any of them would be better than the Dem alternatives, and a cabinet of like-minded Republicans would be better than the hundreds of Marxist / Socialists a Democrat would place into appointee positions.
You might as well be reading The Onion.
Tomasky is further to the left than Bernie Sanders.
He’s to be dismissed out of hand.
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