Barack Obama Says “No” to Future Debates… Who Won? Recap POLL

[politicallore]

http://www.politicallore.com/election-2008/barack-obama-says-no-to-future-debates-who-won-recap/232

[stray cat]

1. American watchers lost and did legitimate journalism

[KansDem]

2. "Should Hillary Clinton Drop Out?"

From the source...

Yes (72%, 617 Votes)
No (15%, 129 Votes)
Obama Should (13%, 107 Votes)
Total Voters: 853

[GoldieAZ49]

3. if you can't take the heat stay out of politics!

weak elitist

:rofl:

[Quixote1818]

6. Don't forget that Clinton has lost several debates

She got spanked in a couple of them.

[GoldieAZ49]

8. And she didn't quit - she can take the heat

big difference

[Quixote1818]

27. She can take the heat in the same way Joe Lieberman can

:rofl:

[GoldieAZ49]

31. ah yes, good ole Joe

the dem party black balled him and the people of CT voted for him anyway.

The "dem" candidate lost, remember?

[Awsi Dooger]

20. Your header is deliciously ironic

Several? Among about 24? I'll take that percentage.

Again, the math seems to be coddled except when it doesn't favor Obama. He's fared erratically in debates and debates figure to be decisive in a general election within a cycle with one party holding power exactly 2 straight terms. That's the history, debates in '60, '76 and '00 shaping the outcome, if not reversing what would have evolved minus the debates. This is hardly '04, when one side had an incumbency edge and the debates weren't enough to nullify it.

Whether or not Obama takes more debates against Hillary, he damn sure needs to tighten and improve his debating skills for the fall. I would think a one-on-one primary debate late in the cycle would be the closest and most relevant approximation.

[tekisui]

Winning Candidate.

Democratic Nominee Barack Obama.

He has risen despite facing the CLinton Machine and the RW smear Machine at the same time.

If Clinton will ever leave the stage with her loss, Obama will grow stronger against the RW smear machine.

[GoldieAZ49]

10. when did he get 2025 delegates? hmmm

he is not the nominee

McCain is leading in most national polls, should we just declare him the POTUS?

Hope you can understand

[tekisui]

24. Polls do not equal vote tallies.

Obama needs ONLY 80 more Superdelegates, and half the remaining PD's to lock it.

Hillary needs 65% of the PD's and 275+ of the remaining Supers. It's not gonna happen.

[tammywammy]

25. It's 2024 now that they need to obtain

[otohara]

4. Thank You Sen. Obama

the only network left w/o a debate is CBS - the thought of Katie moderating is frightening.

[Life Long Dem]

5. She just wants to drag him down regardless of herself being dragged down.

She can't continue to drag Obama down. She obviously could care less if she drags herself down.

[Bensthename]

7. She hasn't earned another debate.. Her GOP antics are too costly on national TV..

[SoFlaJet]

9. The CC is almost broke

and they are trying any and every ploy they can think of to try and keep her on TV. You could actually SEE her reading what she wanted to say in her head. It was like she KNEW her answers ahead of time and I'm willing to bet anyone here that she absolutely DOES have a photographic memory-my wife saw it first, the way her eyes were moving back and forth. It's either that or she really IS in-fucking-sane

[FlaGranny]

14. I'd be willing to bet

that she WAS in on it. The Ayers thing was an obvious set-up. She had to have known it was coming up as it was probably something she had no prior knowledge of. I'm torn between wanting Obama to use the same tactics as she does and not wanting him to lower himself to that kind of dirty politics.

[BootinUp]

11. This won't work well for him. nt

[burythehatchet]

15. I wish I had a list of predictions such as this one. The DU pundit class - always wrong, loudly.

[TahitiNut]

17. It's a papier-mâché reality

... something for cartoonish minds and gnashing teeth. :shrug:

[Frustratedlady]

12. I voted in the side poll about Hillary dropping out of the race...

and it wouldn't accept my vote...said I'd already voted. Never been on that website in my life!

[politicallore]

26. Somebody sure has been... And if you had a choice of what to vote for... Then You already voted...

Once you vote... You only see the results... my guess is you clicked vote twice.

The poll is accurate, it takes a few seconds for your vote to be logged... but thats it.

[jenmito]

13. Hillary said no to an earlier debate in NC. Why should he accept one on HER terms?

[burythehatchet]

16. NO MORE DEBATES, unless they are moderated by Bill Moyers or someone in his league.

[stillcool]

18. Good for him....

I much prefer he do town halls and answer the questions that people have, than playing in the sandbox with the elite.

[whatchamacallit]

19. If debates are so stupid and fucked up that nobody wants to watch, what's the point in having them?

Maybe Hill supporters like this tabloid bullshit, but the rest of us have about had it.

[politicallore]

29. I guarantee people from Penn. were watching.

I guarantee people from Penn. were watching.

[newmajority]

21. There will be no need for any more primary debates.

The superdelegates come aboard after PA, and the nomination is settled.

What the Obama campaign DOES need to do, is to look ahead to the debates in the fall against Grandpa McLoon. Usually there are three of them. No doubt FAUX will insist on at least one. They should only agree to debating on FAUX, if the moderators are NOT employees of Rupert Murdoch. Needless to say, Charles Gibson and Snuffleupagus have disqualified themselves.

Overall, they should insist that at least one of the debates, preferably ALL of them, are REAL debates, sponsored by the League of Women Voters or some other non-partisan group, discussing ACTUAL issues, and not fucking lapel pins or other irrelevant horseshit.

[crankychatter]

22. Clinton associated herself with the attackers and lost credibility

people remember the right wing attack machine of 2000 and 2004

we had a nearly visceral reaction

they attacked her too... in an unfair way... perhaps not as much

BUT she associated herself WITH the attack...

She overestimated the virtue and utility of those tactics

and UNDERESTIMATED the intelligence of Democrats

Obama did well, although understandably shaken and not his best performance ever...

but he WON

we'll find out in PA

[shadowknows69]

23. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

cking whore? Not Hillary, you.

[politicallore]

32. who are we fuuuuing?

[AtomicKitten]

28. Works for me.

After 21 debates, I don't think I could sit through another. It's rather pointless at this point.

[politicallore]

30. One on One debates... count more for me though... I figure they should just invite McCain too, lol..