About Last Night

The big debate was on last night, and I did my usual thing - I checked in once in a while to see if there was anything worth hearing. There was very little.

Frank Luntz:

The first presidential debate left undecided American voters in agreement about at least one thing: President Trump's negativity.

Republican consultant and pollster Frank Luntz asked his focus group to use one word to describe the president and basically "every single word was negative," observed Politico's Tim Alberta. One respondent from Wisconsin called Trump obnoxious and un-presidential, while a Pennsylvania voter said he behaved like a "crackhead." Others described the president as being "un-American" and "arrogant."

In all, from 17 voters in swing states, 15 used negative words and just two used positive words or phrases to describe the president (that is, if you consider "an ass but a confident ass" to be a compliment).

The focus group's opinion of the debate tracks with a CBS poll, which found that 83 percent of debate watchers believed the tone of the evening to be "negative" while 17 percent thought it was "positive." Which raises the question: What debate were those 17 percent watching?

And I'd like to reiterate - these are not debates. A debate is when there's a topic or a question, and each side states their arguments &/or rebuttals.

That mess last night was too fucking typical - especially typical of what 45* does, which is simply to put as much chaff in the air as is necessary so nobody even knows what to think or even what the fucking point was to begin with.

It's a game show, so why not set it up like one. Put both of these guys in a glass booth, and turn their mics off until it's their turn to speak.

I'm betting Biden would do quiet well under those rules - because we'd finally have some fuckin' rules.