February 27, 2008
This Is What Happens When You Blow A Debate
Note that in rolling samples, a sharp upturn for one candidate means that there is a really bad sample for the last candidate on the last day tested (here, last night). Given how the debate went for Clinton last night, I would guess this abnormal sample isn’t just the result of the vagaries of polling.
http://race42008.com/2008/02/27/this-is-what-happens-when-you-blow-a-debate/trackback/
February 27th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Did she have a bad debate performance? I didn’t get to see it. It will be the nail in her coffin if she did.
February 27th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
That’s pretty much the consensus. I don’t watch debates, because most people don’t. I watch press coverage of them, and its been fairly negative for Clinton. Indeed, given the attention on this Farrakhan flap, you can tell that the press wants to sock it to Obama, but she just gave him nothing to work with. Which means she must have been really, really bad.
February 27th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Like Sean, I don’t watch them, though I check some of the liveblogs. My impression was that she was not bad, but not bad is nowhere near good enough in her circumstances — she needed to hit him hard and she had the chance with Farrakhan, but blew it.
It’s interesting to see what a poor candidate she has turned out to be. Not at all what I expected a year or two ago.
February 27th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
do debates really matter?
just about every one said that Fred kicked ass in that last SC debate and he got a paltry 15% and was doubled up by Huckabee, the guy he supposedly destroyed.
February 27th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Hillary acheived her goal of bringing Obama down to her level by NOT bashing him exceedingly in the debate. She stayed afloat and did what she had to do. I’m not supporting her, I’m just praying that she beats Obama.
February 27th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
I didn’t watch the debate either, but what I gather from reviews of it:
(1) Her Inevitableness needed to land some knockout blows but didn’t.
(2) She apparently came off as whiny on several questions.
My conclusion: she probably cost herself Ohio and Texas last night.
If so, then we can start paying real attention to the November head-to-heads about the time our St. Patrick’s Day hangovers go away.