2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Slams Clinton for Having Supported Slashing of America's Safety Net [View all]NanceGreggs
(27,814 posts)... that it's been determined that multiple debates eventually hit the point of diminishing returns.
I am much more of a political junkie than the average voter - as you probably are as well. But it's easy to lapse into over-kill, where no one is watching/listening after a certain number of airings. Even the most hard-hitting, truth-telling, undeniably salient point loses its appeal after being repeated over and over - and falls into the ""not this shit again" category with the listening audience.
This idea of Clinton not doing well in debates is just another DU cliche. She does extremely well - whether you want to admit it or not. I was a staunch Obama supporter in 2008 - but there were times during the debates that I knew HRC had gotten her licks in.
I see little point in debates that take place too far in advance of the actual election. People here constantly refer to the "average American's" short attention span. And now those same people are convinced that the "average American" is going to sit through multiple debates more than a year in advance of the general, and will retain everything they've seen/heard. They won't. I think we both know that.
Hill's poll numbers speak for themselves. She is the preferred candidate among the majority of Democrats - and blaming her for being so is ludicrous. And yet there are those who need to believe that there is a vast conspiracy to frame everything to her advantage - dismissing the fact that she HAS the advantage by virtue of the number of her supporters, and not by virtue of Party manipulation.
There are too many posters here who say "let the people speak" - but when the people speak up FOR the candidate they want, and not the candidate certain posters here want, it becomes a conspiracy to shut the "real" people up.
HRC's numbers ARE the numbers; her support IS the support. The fact that some people here don't want to accept that reality is, in the real world, irrelevant.