Whos nervous for the first debate.

[brettdale]

First off the negative..

At the end of it, the media is going to say, a slam dunk victory for Trumpy.

The Mods will be awful.

The repugs will flood the polls on who won afterwards.


Now the Positive.

With no applause or cheering allowed, Trumpy is going to look like
a bad stand up comedian, hes not going to like the silence.

Clinton will wipe the floor with him.

He wont be able to control himself, and will try and cheap shots, he will
make himself look like an idiot.

[TexasTowelie]

1. With Lester Holt as the moderator

I am hoping that he will be professional and impartial. I don't know if he is sharp enough to actually fact check the debate, but the third debate has me more nervous with Chris Wallace as the moderator and it being the final appearance with both candidates on stage. I do believe that almost everyone should have their decisions prior to that debate though. The people that claim they are undecided at that time are either lying or won't be voting.

[BootinUp]

2. I've decided Hillary is going to wipe the floor with Trump. nt

[jberryhill]

3. They always say "no applause allowed" - it never has an effect

You suppose they'll make people have to stay in detention during recess if they applaud or react in different ways?

How do you suppose this rule is supposed to work?

[MoonRiver]

10. People will be escorted out?

That DOES happen.

[Buzz cook]

4. I am nervous about the media.

They are setting a high bar for Clinton and a low one for Trump.

Even if Clinton wins in public opinion, the media will attack her performance and elevate Trumps after the debate till public opinion conforms with their own. That's what they did with the Bush/Gore debates.

[yeoman6987]

11. They are having no commercial breaks

So it's 90 minutes with no breaks at all. They can't even have a bathroom break even if necessary. Yep I'd wear depends regardless of jokes.

[vinny9698]

5. This is an example of Trump's answers to debate questions. An actual Trump answer

In a primary debate Trump was asked, "How to you plan to build that wall?"
Trump: "“First of all, I want to build a wall, a wall that works. So important, and it’s a big part of it.
Second of all, we have a lot of really bad dudes in this country from outside, and I think Chris knows that, maybe as well as anybody.
They go. If I get elected, first day they’re gone. Gangs all over the place. Chicago, Baltimore, no matter where you look.
We have a country based on laws.”
1. He did not answer the question.
2. He went off topic.
3. His choice of 4th grade language skills.
Now if you were a high school debate judge, what would be your grade?
I foresee the same pattern of his answers on all the questions posed by the moderator and Hillary. Short non informative answer, just repeating the question. Followed by off topic word salad.
A GOP winner winner, disaster dinner.
Trump is so easy to defeat, just use his own word salad statements against him.
The more he speaks the more he insults himself.

[Charles Bukowski]

6. The media is currently being

crucified for their kid gloves treatment of Donald. Matt Lauer still can't go outside without dodging tomatoes and even Jimmy Fallon is getting the treatment after his fluff interview with Trump.

As such, Durrrr Fuhrer will have to seriously overperform in order for the talking heads to declare him the winner. Simply showing up and spewing gibberish isn't going to cut it.

I saw enough at the CiC forum to conclude that Donald will be a disaster in the debates. The man is an imbecile, plain and simple. If HRC can go toe to toe with a skilled debater like Barack Obama, Trump will be a cakewalk.

[spiderpig]

7. Very good points.

That's pretty much what I think. (But then I never thought Shrub had a snowball's chance in hell in the first election, let alone the second.)

[underthematrix]

8. They expect a 100 million viewers but I won't be one of them

I'll be following on the Obama Diary and tweeting their selected prescreened tweets

[MoonRiver]

9. I think it's all going to be good!

I'm really looking forward to Rump's smackdown.