Official 10/7 Townhall Debate Live Discussion Thread

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Well, obviously they'll both say yes.

[Likely Voter]

I liked McCain's handshake with the voter. It looked (at least to me) rather authentic, and I think will go over pretty good.

that was a good genuine moment

[Volrath50]

League of Democracies! Sort of like the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but better.

Ahhh. They both support Israel. How nice.

[Eraserhead]

Obama is not finishing very strongly.  He needs to win on the next question.

Buzzword of the day: "Petrodollars"!

Honestly, if he doesn't start drooling all over himself, he doesn't have to do much of anything at this point.

[Likely Voter]

League of Democracies! Sort of like the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but better.

Ahhh. They both support Israel. How nice.

like the SNL joke

"since I was young my two favorite things were jews and Cuban food"

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League of Democracies! Sort of like the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but better.

Ahhh. They both support Israel. How nice.

I already told you what their answers would be.

[Volrath50]

Obama is not finishing very strongly.  He needs to win on the next question.

Buzzword of the day: "Petrodollars"!

Honestly, if he doesn't start drooling all over himself. He doesn't have to do much of anything at this point.

Actually, now that I brought it up I can't get the picture of one of the candidates tripping over their chair and stumbling into the audience out of my head. That would be quite amusing.

[Likely Voter]

what a weird question

[Likely Voter]

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[J. J.]

McCain's opening was great.  His closing was great.  He did a bit better, according to the tracking, on health care, which surprised me.

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Brokaw did his best, but his pal McCain lost.

[MODU]

Well, that was pretty much a waste of 90 minutes.

[Speed of Sound]

Well, that was pretty much a waste of 90 minutes.

Thats what Im thinking. At the end of the day, what effect did this have on anything? At all?

[Torie]

Well, it is pretty much over. McCain was unable to effectively deal with why his health care plan was better (and the importance of de-coupling it from employers, and allowing price competition to work more robustly) , and how he was not giving tax cuts to the rich (he's keeping the rates the same), but to corporations, intangible entities, whose value is tanking, and owned by your pension plans (yours and mine), who have the highest tax rates in the world or close to it, and will be sending jobs overseas, unless the tax rates become more competitive with the international standard.

Brokaw let Obama break every debate rule in the book and run way over time, and probably consume 60% of it, and McCain let him get away with it.

McCain sucks as a debater. It's sad.

It wasn't really a town hall debate by the way. It was Brokaw giving out boring questions through the mouths of others. And he culled out anything to do with social issues. And of course nothing about Ayers etc.

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Well, that was pretty much a waste of 90 minutes.

Thats what Im thinking. At the end of the day, what effect did this have on anything? At all?

Probably not much effect, and that is a total disaster for McCain.

[Barack Hussian YO MAMA!!!!]

I liked McCain's handshake with the voter. It looked (at least to me) rather authentic, and I think will go over pretty good.

that was a good genuine moment

that was his best moment of the debate but, I think obama still won.

[J. J.]

I liked McCain's handshake with the voter. It looked (at least to me) rather authentic, and I think will go over pretty good.

that was a good genuine moment

that was his best moment of the debate but, I think obama still won.

It's not who wins, but who connects.  McCain was no Reagan, but he may have connected.

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I liked McCain's handshake with the voter. It looked (at least to me) rather authentic, and I think will go over pretty good.

that was a good genuine moment

that was his best moment of the debate but, I think obama still won.

It's not who wins, but who connects.  McCain was no Reagan, but he may have connected.

Nope. That One connected, though.

[© tweed]

I liked McCain's handshake with the voter. It looked (at least to me) rather authentic, and I think will go over pretty good.

that was a good genuine moment

that was his best moment of the debate but, I think obama still won.

It's not who wins, but who connects.  McCain was no Reagan, but he may have connected.

he's lost every "who won?" focus group and flash poll.  so, no.

[J. J.]

I liked McCain's handshake with the voter. It looked (at least to me) rather authentic, and I think will go over pretty good.

that was a good genuine moment

that was his best moment of the debate but, I think obama still won.

It's not who wins, but who connects.  McCain was no Reagan, but he may have connected.

he's lost every "who won?" focus group and flash poll.  so, no.

It's going to be, "who do you trust" or "who understands you more," not "who won."

[exopolitician]

I liked McCain's handshake with the voter. It looked (at least to me) rather authentic, and I think will go over pretty good.

that was a good genuine moment

that was his best moment of the debate but, I think obama still won.

It's not who wins, but who connects.  McCain was no Reagan, but he may have connected.

he's lost every "who won?" focus group and flash poll.  so, no.

It's going to be, "who do you trust" or "who understands you more," not "who won."

Of which...he lost too?