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riversedge

(69,719 posts)
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 08:41 AM Oct 2015

Hillary Clinton won the third GOP debate. Here's why

He goes through each Repub candidate-what they did or did not do....





Hillary Clinton won the third GOP debate. Here's why
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/10/29/hillary-clinton-won-third-gop-debate-heres-why.html


Douglas Schoen

By Douglas E. Schoen Published October 29, 2015 FoxNews.com


In conventional terms Senators Cruz and Rubio won Thursday night’s debate. They were laser focused, quick, smart and passionate. They defended themselves, their records and went on the offensive at all the right times, calling out the moderators on unfair questions that were focused less on policy than on personality.

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But we’ve learned that conventional wisdom doesn’t mean all that much in this election.....................

This is not a field that I expect to get that much smaller anytime soon. It is therefore very clear that the longer this goes on the more Hillary Clinton is benefitted.

In the latest CBS/New York Times poll, 60 percent of Americans said that they wanted to see an outsider in office. And although Cruz has marketed himself as an outsider in the Senate, there are no bigger outsiders in this race than Donald Trump and Ben Carson.

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The upshot is that I don’t expect the polls to move much. We’re looking at a Republican electorate that wants outsiders and that isn’t going to change anytime soon.

Furthermore, the divisions in the Republican party remain strong and obvious. This is not a field that I expect to get that much smaller anytime soon.

It is therefore very clear that the longer this goes on the more Hillary Clinton is benefitted.

It follows that Clinton may have actually been the winner of the evening.

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Walk away

(9,494 posts)
9. Who is your candidate? The GOP hates Hillary and would love Bernie to use up....
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 11:20 AM
Oct 2015

her time and money running against him.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
11. I said Hillary type, smart, experiencedand able to serve. Yes the GOP wants Sanders to win the
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 12:05 PM
Oct 2015

nomination, they know they could beat Sanders. My point is the GOP has a Clown Car, they need a viable candidate.

Walk away

(9,494 posts)
12. Oh I get it but I think the whole GOP just wants their usual moronic front man...
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 01:17 PM
Oct 2015

no matter what they say!

bluestateguy

(44,173 posts)
7. wasn't Doug Schoen the one who said Obama shouldn't run for a 2nd term?
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 09:59 AM
Oct 2015

In 2011 I think he called for Obama to not run again, suggetsing that he couldn't win.

Walk away

(9,494 posts)
10. Well, it was Bernie Sanders that suggested Obama be primaried for that 2nd term.
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 11:22 AM
Oct 2015

That was before Bernie was a Democrat....oh wait....he still isn't a Democrat!

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