Quote (Pollster @ Oct 5 2016 07:23pm)

This is exactly why you can't just create an alternate reality and hope everyone only watches something once and is easily fooled. I understand he was in a difficult position with few options but that can't be your strategy, because that can only work for a couple of hours if you're at your luckiest, a day maximum if some other distraction comes along and catches everybody's attention.

There was inevitably going to come a time when, yes, people were going to see that Trump really did say in a very matter-of-factly manner every single thing that Tim Kaine said that he said (and the chances were high that with a low initial audience that most people were going to see this debate through the coverage, not the initial viewing). That simple confirmation was not only going to make Trump sound crazy or extreme, which those comments already do on their own, but the added message reinforcement helps drive home the point that when Trump and Pence are in front of the cameras talking to you they're just going to straight up lie to you every single time that they get asked a question that they can't find a way to get out by attacking Hillary Clinton, and the odds are 100% that when they're talking about her, they're lying about her, too.

Quote (Voyaging @ Oct 5 2016 06:30pm)

More like Kaine was specifically egging him on to get those sound bites out of him. He may have lost the debate but Hillary won the debate.

The sacrificial lamb.

Quote (Voyaging @ Oct 5 2016 04:30pm)

More like Kaine was specifically egging him on to get those sound bites out of him. He may have lost the debate but Hillary won the debate.

The sacrificial lamb.

Quote (Pollster @ Oct 5 2016 05:23pm)

There was inevitably going to come a time when, yes, people were going to see that Trump really did say in a very matter-of-factly manner every single thing that Tim Kaine said that he said

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Quote (Goomshill @ 5 Oct 2016 20:22)

No, there isn't. What alternate reality are you living in, where people even remember what was said a week later?
Average americans aren't going to spend weeks analyzing every sound bite from the VP debate, even the media isn't even going to make the story last a full week cycle, nobody is going to remember any of it let alone come to new conclusions out of the blue.

Quote (excellence @ 5 Oct 2016 16:40)

another week, another 8-figure attack ad buy via the candidate promising to 'keep money out of politics'
can't possibly manage to spend that on a positive image on her actual campaign since there is none.


as if a glorified intern at a polling company qualifies as an 'average american' :rofl:

Quote (Goomshill @ Oct 5 2016 04:22pm)

No, there isn't. What alternate reality are you living in, where people even remember what was said a week later?
Average americans aren't going to spend weeks analyzing every sound bite from the VP debate, even the media isn't even going to make the story last a full week cycle, nobody is going to remember any of it let alone come to new conclusions out of the blue.

Quote (Beowulf @ Oct 5 2016 06:42pm)

that's why the campaign put out a convenient ad doing it for them mere hours after the debate ended

and it will float around the internet getting more and more views

Quote (excellence @ Oct 5 2016 08:40pm)

another week, another 8-figure attack ad buy via the candidate promising to 'keep money out of politics'
can't possibly manage to spend that on a positive image on her actual campaign since there is none.

Quote (Voyaging @ 5 Oct 2016 21:04)

8 figure? As in you think that ad cost over $10,000,000 to make?

Quote (Voyaging @ 18 Jul 2015 08:26)

I'm seriously so sick of hearing about Trump already; he's a fringe candidate who stands no chance at getting the nomination. He's this year's Ron Paul (gets tons of attention on the internet but loses by a landslide).

Quote (Voyaging @ 18 Jul 2015 12:46)

Yeah actually on second thought, Trump is going to lose far worse than Paul did.