2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: ABC News: How Bernie Sanders Got the Biggest Twitter Bump From the GOP Debate [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Christmas. Everyone is extremely busy.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz is incompetent as a party leader. She may be a very good as a Hillary Clinton pusher, but she is incompetent as a party leader.
One of the points in holding a debate and investing party time, money and reputation on a debate is getting a good crowd. But an even bigger point of the whole exercise is to get media coverage, big, controversial debate --- media debate and coverage in the days immediately following the debate.
This debate will generate relatively little interest in the days before and after it because it is too close to Christmas.
Maybe Debbie Wasserman Schultz should resign. Is she oblivious to the media patterns and the social customs in America.
Saturday night before Christmas is party night in America. New Years Eve and July Fourth are bigger. But the Saturday before Christmas is a really big party night.
I can't believe that this mistake was made unless it was done intentionally to avoid getting media coverage on this third debate.
What idiocy. Sorry to be so impolite. But a weaker word would not be appropriate. It would not describe the kind of mistake that Debbie Wasserman Schultz made in scheduling this debate.
It's unbelievable.
No wonder we lost so badly in 2014. We have incompetent leadership in the Democratic Party.
Time for an apology and maybe even a resignation.