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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Debate(s) Watch Party

The second presidential debate is tonight, and the Circle Cinema is again hosting a watch party. Before the presidential debate will be the one and only debate between Andrew Rice and Jim "Who's Afraid of a Little Mercury?" Inhofe for senate. That debate starts at 5:15, so try to get there as early as you can.

The Presidential debate starts at 8, although you'll want to shoot for 7 if you can to ensure good seats. The last two debates were a full house.

This debate is "Town Hall" format, where individuals from the audience get to ask the candidates their own questions. This is McCain's favorite format. That makes this his best chance to look Presidential and put the lie to the Obama campaign's characterization of him as "erratic".

Working against him is probably going to be the news. I'm guessing most questions (excepting those from Republican plants) will be on the economy. Because of the news two weeks ago, that debate ended up being mostly economy too. The topic of the last debate will officially be the economy. Of course that was McCain's weak point even before the "crisis" happened. It's almost enough to make a person feel sorry for him.

Almost. Just think about the 160,000 people who lost their jobs last month, or the 3/4 of a million who lost their jobs this year. Think about all the people who were trying to save to put kids in college, or retire, or are retired, and saw %30 of their savings go up in smoke this year. Then, to paraphrase James Carvile, see if you can find an anchor to throw to the son of a bitch.

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