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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hats off to the DNC. The debate schedule is utterly brilliant. [View all]Response to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #29)
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If only that were the only thing it does. It also keeps us from debating each other.
jwirr
Aug 2015
#1
Starting is October gives plenty of time for that, and will focus on the insanity that is the
still_one
Aug 2015
#54
How many people are even going to watch 6 debates between a handful of candidates?
pnwmom
Aug 2015
#71
Again ... Those voters have access to TVs to watch the 4 preceeding Debates. n/t
1StrongBlackMan
Aug 2015
#94
These debates are for the Democratic voters to pick our candidates. You must be ...
Scuba
Aug 2015
#101
To you, maybe ... but then, you wrote it. Everything I write, I understand ...
1StrongBlackMan
Aug 2015
#107
Exactly. Let then vie for Media attention between each other. Let them spout all the idiocy the DEMs
misterhighwasted
Aug 2015
#3
Just tagging on to your comment: How does limiting the number of debates work into an optimal plan?
erronis
Aug 2015
#55
We do not have to follow what the clown car does,we can work our primary the intelligent way
Thinkingabout
Aug 2015
#4
The voters will be completely sold on Republican ideas before we even begin our debates.
JDPriestly
Aug 2015
#28
Everyone's at the beach--no one save the already committed will be seriously watching this train
MADem
Aug 2015
#34
Exactly, not many people are seriously thinking about presidential politics this time of year....
George II
Aug 2015
#44
One or two hours every five or six weeks is going to "sell" republican ideas?
George II
Aug 2015
#42
We learn through repetition. They are getting in a lot more repetition of their ideologie and
JDPriestly
Aug 2015
#77
You've got 17 clowns sniping at each other every chance they get, and tonight probably won't be....
George II
Aug 2015
#78
And all 17 of them will repeat the same basic conservative mantra with small differences.
JDPriestly
Aug 2015
#79
Mantra is one thing, substance is another - and it will be sorely lacking in substance.
George II
Aug 2015
#80
Yes. But the substanceless claptrap will be repeated over and over, and that is how it is
JDPriestly
Aug 2015
#85
Yes, it is brilliant to schedule 33% of the debates for after 16 states have already voted.
jeff47
Aug 2015
#6
jeff, you're makin WAY too much sense, but it's a non-starter, as DWS is running interference for Hillary. Anyone who thinks the system isn't rigged is just fooling themselves...
InAbLuEsTaTe
Aug 2015
#12
Rope does no good without a push. We are only providing wishful thinking that a push will appear.
jeff47
Aug 2015
#10
I can understand waiting awhile to let repubs make fools of themselves but.....
n8dogg83
Aug 2015
#9
The republicans are running against each other, 17 of them, not Democrats yet....
George II
Aug 2015
#47
It's not 'brilliant' if you live in IA, NH, SC, NV, AL, AR, CO, GA, MA, MN, NC, OK, TN, TX, VT or VA
99th_Monkey
Aug 2015
#14
You can't really measure that, the effect debates have on voter preference. I can't say I've
Ed Suspicious
Aug 2015
#41
Debates are not going to change anyone's mind. It won't change my mind, nor your mind. n/t
Lil Missy
Aug 2015
#67
That is such a transparently phony argument, primarily being made as a smokescreen
99th_Monkey
Aug 2015
#70
Hats off to the spin masters for finding a 'reason' for stifling democratic debate
tk2kewl
Aug 2015
#15
They sure do have a bag of tricks that would make Felix the cat envious. nt.
Juicy_Bellows
Aug 2015
#86
we saw what delaying or failure to promote answers to republican charges did to the Kerry campaign
bigtree
Aug 2015
#22
The schedule is devised entirely to hide Hillary. even her supporters know that her
Doctor_J
Aug 2015
#91
That it protects Hillary from challengers is probably only a coincidence. Lol.
aikoaiko
Aug 2015
#51
So are you saying by letting the republicans make asses out of themselves for the next 8 weeks, that
still_one
Aug 2015
#61
They have almost 3 months before the first primaries, including debates in those first primary
still_one
Aug 2015
#73
I am sorry, what is the IIRC? I assume it is the DNC rules of some sort. Are they binding, and why
still_one
Aug 2015
#82
To those who worry that the later start to Dem debates is letting the GOP "get their message out"
brooklynite
Aug 2015
#97
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government
Tierra_y_Libertad
Aug 2015
#98