Presidential Debate

Oct 9, 2016 129 Comments

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Starting a thread to consolidate discussion before, during, and after the second debate.

POLL: Which candidate will you vote for as a result of tonight's debate? Or, if you're already decided and the results will not change your vote, who are you voting for?
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PRE-DEBATE: How do you anticipate each candidate will change their approach as a result of the first debate? What are your thoughts on recent revelations since the first debate including 1) WikiLeaks' release of excerpts of Clinton's Wall Street speeches, 2) Trump's vulgar remarks caught hot mic, his Howard Stern interviews discussing his daughter and threesomes, 3) rebukes of Trump by a number of prominent members of the Republican establishment?

REAL-TIME: During the debate share real-time feedback on each candidate.

POST-DEBATE: Who won? Did either candidate move the needle in terms of voter sentiment?

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  • "Cuz you'd be in jail"

    Buuurrnned
    Oct 9, 2016 10
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    Bot rand

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    How much tax is "fair share"? Hilary said she would add tax for households with income greater than $250k. I thought I am already paying a lot, apparently not enough.
    Oct 9, 2016 8
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    I would call it a win for trump unfortunately.
    Oct 9, 2016 11
    • lol of course he is scumbag, but you fail to recognize Bill "hotdog" Clinton's behavior towards women he abused and Hillary attacking those women saying "bimbo eruptions"
      "I would crucify her"
      Oct 9, 2016
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      why would more people vote for pence; cookie cutter career politicians did horribly in the primaries
      Oct 10, 2016
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    How many emails do we delete on a daily basis? I'd say about 300 so maybe 3 months in 33k gone
    Oct 9, 2016 22
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      Powell has nothing to do with this election except being used as an excuse by Hillary, having lied to do so according to him. Again, job description.

      Hillary had no fault, tell that to the families of the dead how ignoring numerous warnings was normal and unpreventable. She took responsibility for the attack, so there goes your "no fault".

      I never said tax returns were unimportant. The rules need to be changed if it allows him to delay and still be on the ballot. In any case, paying no taxes due to loses is the way the tax code is written. A pro tax prepper would be fired for paying too much more taxes than is required.
      Oct 10, 2016
    • Powell is only used as a precedence for use of private accounts and to underline the fact that the rules were not clear and fuzzy at the time. Powell is also used to draw a comparison to the reaction from the political opposition that shows this is all a political witch hunt. End of story. I'll be happy to stop talking about it and discuss more important issues as soon as others are.

      And I don't have to tell families of the 4 dead Americans that it wasn't Hillary's fault. We've had 9 congressional and Defence investigations that have said the same thing. Hillary takes responsibility for bad things just like any leader should when there's a fuckup under their watch. How much more do you want to debate on this topic?

      Finally, you agree that it's enormously important that Trump releases his tax returns. I find it completely disqualifying frankly that he refuses. And I don't fault him for using the tax code correctly. I just want a black jack dealer that will clap his hands when he begins his shift. But since we're speculating on Trumps taxes, I think that particular year he claims a near billion dollar loss wasn't actually a fully realized loss. The best theory I've read is Trump exploited a now closed loophole (that Hillary voted to close) that allowed someone like Trump to deduct gross losses on particular transactions and not net losses. The wording of the law was poor and allowed this. In reality it was probably other banks or investors that lost almost a billion, and Trump might have lost nothing or just his initial deposit. We will never know of course, but that's the prevailing theory.
      Oct 10, 2016
  • Man. Trump had a bad and nasty attitude. Pacing like a caged animal. Interrupting and sniping. You could tell he hated the moderators right out of the gate. Good thing the mic wasn't wired, because I'm sure he wanted to wrap it around their necks and strangle them.
    Oct 9, 2016 2
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      To be fair, the commentators hated him to begin with. For example, Anderson Cooper has been firing at him for a while before the debate.
      Oct 9, 2016
    • Bad blood or not, the moderators did not let Trump get away to not answering the question and controlling the topic. He tried to with nearly every question. It was the one time that I felt the moderators actually did their job correctly. I wish there was live fact checking at these debates so we could see a running count of lies at the bottom of the screen for both candidates.
      Oct 10, 2016