2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe Daily 202: Bernie Sanders lost last night’s debate
Washington Post:There is near consensus that Bernie Sanders lost last nights debate because of his tone.
The Vermont senator preached to the choir and did not do enough to win over fresh converts, which he needs to change the trajectory of the Democratic nominating contest. He often seemed caustic, angry and bitter. His cantankerousness was off-putting.
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As a former Michigan congressman put it...
Old Guy Who Yells A Lot Sick Of Listening To Old Guy Who Yells A Lot
Or take this from Obama's former chief speechwriter:
?@jonfavs
Whoever told Bernie to go relentlessly angry and negative gave him very, very bad advice. He's come this far because of his inspiration.
I doubt it was any sort of strategy, Chris Cillizza writes, but rather a reflection that he has been running against Clinton for a long time and is sick of listening to her talking points. It might not be as smooth a path as she and her team imagined but she will win unless Sanders can start changing hearts and minds.
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)nc4bo
(17,651 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)mono track messaging, lost, rude, off message, acrimonious, belligerent, worn out, ....yeah, it's getting old alright.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... I don't know why, maybe it's just me, but it totally grosses me out. (All the other things are just annoying and nerve-grating.)
Admiral Loinpresser
(3,859 posts)She talked many more minutes than Bernie last night. Sorry, but that is an empirical FACT. Wolfie and the other toadies simply refused to bring her "to heel."
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)revbones
(3,660 posts)is certainly poor behavior...
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)Admiral Loinpresser
(3,859 posts)Hillary talked more minutes during the debate. True or false?
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)brooklynite
(94,757 posts)You're welcome to disagree with their OPINIONS, but explain how "lying" works in here...
...or perhaps, go work for the Trump campaign? he seems to like that phrase.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)opinions contrary to fact about those photos, about Danny Lyon and foisted his made up opinion as facts without any fucking basis at all, in the Post and all over the media.
The Washington Post also claimed incorrectly that 147 FBI Agents were investigating Hillary. Or maybe that was true, since they are so trusted by those who most adore Hillary?
That paper has lied about both Democratic candidates this cycle. As a Democrat, I object to that and do not care for promoting them on days their narrative happens to mesh with my own.
The Danny Lyon smear was unprofessional and they did not do the right thing following up. It's McCathyist and fantasist in nature.
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)Now you can say something about my head being in the sand. But I still do not and will not accept anything from the Washington Post, not after that Capehart garbage.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)He will fail.
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)Simply by breaking through the apathy that Clinton's candidacy has induced and offering a REAL choice Sanders wins.
Hillary's number never moves -- Obama wins by winning undecideds:
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)He needs to knock her below 50% to win.
Admiral Loinpresser
(3,859 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)He can't add anyone in New York. And a majority of those who can vote are supporting Clinton here.
Admiral Loinpresser
(3,859 posts)He brought in new voters, particularly young people. Bernie represents a path to save a dying party. She represents the potential destruction of the Party.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Democrats not in danger of self-destructing--have problems but can be fixed. Republicans? Not so much.
R B Garr
(16,993 posts)disfavor by comparing Barack to....Bernie. Barack was in his 40's in his prime and a rising star in the Democratic party. And that's just for starters. Bernie is just Occupy Wall Street on steroids, copycat Al Gore on Climate Change and smear all Democrats and anyone who doesn't buy his negativity.
Bernie is NO Barack!
LisaM
(27,842 posts)They sure disappeared during midterms. We don't need that to happen again.
Admiral Loinpresser
(3,859 posts)Democratic presidents in the Age of Reagan tend to lose support except when facing weak GOP opponents. In the Age of Sanders that dynamic will change, imo. Candidates will head to the left, where the American mainstream is heading because of perpetual war and extreme wealth inequality. Voters will respond when an incumbent fights to expand SS rather than cutting it. You have to give people something to vote for, not against. That is why the Dem Party has shrunk in registrants, state governors and legislators in the Age of Reagan.
Don't praise Reagan, as Obama and WJC have done, expose his lies, racism and genocide and take him head on.
LisaM
(27,842 posts)They had a huge drop off in Wisconsin on the very same ballot. I don't live in Wisconsin and even I was aware of that judicial race.
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)Clinton has had poor turn out throughout this primary, down double digits from her 2008 run.
The enthusiasm gap is kicking Clinton's butt in state after state.
Then there's this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-greenberg/polldefying-pattern-predi_b_9434118.html
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Admiral Loinpresser
(3,859 posts)if we were to redo Ohio, Florida and Florida, or any state, Bernie would improve. Annie Oakley would decline.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Admiral Loinpresser
(3,859 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)right now all that matters is NY-PA-MD-CT-DE-RI.
Clinton --if the polls are correct-is supported by more than 50% of the voters in every poll of those states.
He needs to take votes away from people inclined to support her, and to do that he needs to give them a reason to drop her.
Hence the attacks.
IamMab
(1,359 posts)GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)brooklynite
(94,757 posts)...they both liberally went over their time allotments.
Admiral Loinpresser
(3,859 posts)IamMab
(1,359 posts)A link? A quote? Anything? No? Just your truthiness-inspired opinion? Clearly.
Admiral Loinpresser
(3,859 posts)One is on FB, the other on Reddit, both by Bernie backers. I don't think Establishment outlets keep accountability data on their own programs. I can only link to a website too progressive to be named on DU. If you Message me, I will send you the link.
IamMab
(1,359 posts)When you can find a credible media source that tracked speaking time at the debate, then you might have a point. Instead, what you're likely trying to present is some BernieBro-manufactured bullshit with no basis in reality. I'm not even going to waste time pretending those sources are viable just to placate you either.
I also shouldn't need to privately message you to get evidence of a claim you made in public. Your evidence should be posted with the claim. Let me guess, the "website too progressive to be named on DU" starts with "breit" and ends with "bart," doesn't it?
GTFOOH
Admiral Loinpresser
(3,859 posts)sniper dodging, Annie Oakley, moderate/progressive, Bernie-is-unqualified, crime-guns-come-from-Vermont, I-told-off-Wall-Street, I'll release the transcripts, Goldwater Girl any day of the century.
IamMab
(1,359 posts)You and your fake evidence.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)I can't bear to wonder what she's going to say next. I hope to retain some affection for the Party after her lurch to the right and all that ignorant bigotry so I have shut down any listening to Hillary for the sake of other Democrats.
Armstead
(47,803 posts)at least that's how my nervous-system felt watching it
Seeinghope
(786 posts)Any day of the week
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)Rule 2 -- Separate your opponent from their natural base (eg. call them "hypocite", "phony" etc. example: "Al Gore flies on airplanes so he can't be pro-environment" ...
Rule 3 -- Avoid saying your opponent's name
Seeinghope
(786 posts)Bernie Sanders did what he needed to do. He called out Hillary Clinton on the smears she was saying about him and the misrepresentations that she was trying to sell about herself. Because of that "his tone" was different. Well of course it was! He had to do some truth telling. He is dealing with someone who is far from an honest candidate.
He did it in a straight forward honest way. He cornered her a few times and really showed how it is almost impossible it is to get a straight answer and commitment from her. It, I think really was really quite telling. It showed her dancing around trying to dodge making the commitment in black and white terms. He proved the point that Hillary Clinton cannot answer to many things directly whereas Bernie Sanders has and will. He is a straight forward person that understands the complexity of issues that does not get sidetracked by the glitz and glamour of the power and wealth being tempted by the upper one tenth of 1%.
His personal accumulation of wealth compared to her accumulation of wealth while being "public servants" alone speaks volumes.
Admiral Loinpresser
(3,859 posts)EndElectoral
(4,213 posts)LexVegas
(6,107 posts)Seeinghope
(786 posts)Will you release your transcripts? How many time did he have to ask her and how many times did she try to evade and dance around the commitment? He showed how evasive she is as a person and politician. He took her to task for the crap that she and/or her cohorts had said about him. He had to be stern and show what the difference between a person who is direct and upfront and a person who is varying and indirect.
cannabis_flower
(3,768 posts)As you can see, Hillary got more time during her turns and interrupts Bernie more. I don't see his putting his finger up as interrupting. He's signalling to the moderators that he wants to respond. Hillary just goes ahead and interrupts and talks over Bernie. And she did more yelling than he did this debate. She barely stopped yelling the whole time.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280174957
Orsino
(37,428 posts)A few anecdotes are not the consensus the writer would like us to imagine.
Watch the polls if you want to know who "won."
brooklynite
(94,757 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)Scientific polls could probably tell us if the wind has changed diretion or not.
Anecdotes won't.
CrowCityDem
(2,348 posts)Armstead
(47,803 posts)After all this is not a campaign of ideas. It's corporate entertainment.
"Ohhhhhhhhh did you see Bernie's posture there?"
"Ohhhhhhhhh Clinton just looks so masterful in her posture."
"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that point was made in the wrong tone."
It's fucking bullshit. Politics has become chepened to the point of being bullshit.
The oligarchs win again. Distract from actual ideas and realoities. "Hey look at that Bright Shiny Object over There. Forget that hand that's picking your pocket."
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
Logical
(22,457 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)And folks wonder why so many are turned off by politics? Awful display by both last night. I really can't believe this is the best DEMs have. Sad.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)He is already tanking with African American voters.. that comment certainly wont help.
SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)when that happens you are toast
lol
reddread
(6,896 posts)and
this
was
in
New York.
mcar
(42,388 posts)Sky Masterson
(5,240 posts)brooklynite
(94,757 posts)Bottom line, if Sanders didn't "win" sufficiently well to shift about 16% of the New York State electorate in 5 days, he "lost".
Sky Masterson
(5,240 posts)Don't count your Cuckoos before they hatch.
Her debate performance was horrid. She is status quo. No vision or courage.
She is incremental when we need bold steps.
JSup
(740 posts)...everyone lost last night.
With the booing and the cheering and the petty attacking back and forth I felt like I was watching a reality TV show about a couple divorcing.
If I wanted garbage like that I'd go watch Cruz and Trump debate.