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global1

(25,270 posts) Tue Jun 25, 2019, 06:33 PM Jun 2019

MSNBC Is Certainly Getting A Lot Of Mileage Out Of These Debates......

they've been promoting it every chance they get. I'm afraid that they're going to be the ones that are going to pick our Dem nominee for us. They can bend and shape the responses by the debatee's and point the American People in the direction of the candidate that they want. That scares me.

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MSNBC Is Certainly Getting A Lot Of Mileage Out Of These Debates...... (Original Post) global1 Jun 2019 OP

Some of them have been pretty fair in having candidates on their shows lunatica Jun 2019 #1

No. TwilightZone Jun 2019 #2

I doubt there will be any major shifts in the top tier candidates calguy Jun 2019 #3

Trying to anyway elfin Jun 2019 #4

lunatica

(53,410 posts)

1. Some of them have been pretty fair in having candidates on their shows

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Tue Jun 25, 2019, 06:36 PM

Jun 2019

That’s all I want. Fair coverage on all the candidates.

TwilightZone

(25,479 posts)

2. No.

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Tue Jun 25, 2019, 06:39 PM

Jun 2019

The assumption that one network with a limited audience is going to "pick our nominee for us" is misguided, at best. Most voters don't even decide until the last month, and many the last days, so coverage of one debate months before the first primary isn't going to make a dent.

"They can bend and shape the responses by the debatee's and point the American People in the direction of the candidate that they want. "

Or people can actually watch the debates and make up their own minds. Nah.

calguy

(5,325 posts)

3. I doubt there will be any major shifts in the top tier candidates

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Tue Jun 25, 2019, 06:46 PM

Jun 2019

My only hope is that some of the hardly knowns, like Gabbard and Williamson get weeded out of the mix. Although that may not happen until after the first primary. I can't understand how Marrianne Williamson is on the stage while the governor of Montana is not.

elfin

(6,262 posts)

4. Trying to anyway

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Tue Jun 25, 2019, 08:57 PM

Jun 2019

I am not going to watch. Figure DU and others will winnow to significant moments, which may or may not be all that "significant" in the long run.

Holding my fire (and wallet) until closer to potential nomination reality.

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