September 26, 2016, - 4:59 pm
Does Tonight’s Prez Debate Really Matter? No & It’ll Be a Letdown. Here’s Why . . .
Tonight’s Presidential debate between Hillary Rodham Cankles and Donald Trump is being hyped as the “Battle of the Century.” Like you, I’ll be watching. But, in the end, it will have little or no effect on the November election results, and here’s why.
I plan to watch tonight’s debate mostly because I’ll enjoy watching WWE come to politics. It’ll be entertaining. A friend of mine likens Hillary vs. Trump to Godzilla vs. King Kong. I don’t remember what the result was between ‘Zilla and Kong, but they’re both of about equal strength. And while I’ll be voting for Trump in November (and, though I don’t trust him one bit, I voted for him in the primary because I thought he had the best shot of beating Hillary), I think they’re both equals when it comes to flamboyance, loudness, etc. Both of them have prepared a lot for tonight. (Don’t believe Trump’s claim he hasn’t. You know that’s BS designed to trick his opponent.) And I don’t think either of them will do anything incredibly stupid. So, in the end–even though I loathe Hillary–I think it’ll be a draw, with both sides spinning it as their win.
Very few contemporary debates change minds or election results when it comes to general elections. (The primary is a different story–and I believe primary debates helped Trump win the GOP nomination.) And I think this one–as fun as it may be to watch–will be more of the same. It won’t change a thing. In a week, any good lines said tonight will probably be forgotten . . . unless somebody really screws up. And I don’t think that will happen. Both of them will be on their most cautious, best behavior.
Over the weekend, we’ve been treated to the exact same sound bites from past debates by all the major news networks and radio talk show hosts. And all of them have told us that those statements and utterances at the debates made a difference and decided elections. But the truth is, they didn’t. Rush Limbaugh and FOX, NBC, and ABC all showed Al Gore’s snobbish loud sighs during one of the three Presidential debates with George W. Bush. They all said this lost Al Gore the election. But did it? Have you ever met anyone who was undecided and voted for Bush because they didn’t like Al Gore’s sighs? PUH-LEEZE. Didn’t happen. By November (and there was little early voting then like there is now), most people forgot about his sighs. People generally vote on who they think will be better for America (however wrong and misguided they often are in their attribution of that quality to the choices), not what happened at Presidential debates, which are generally forgotten.
Yes, there are a few scant few occurrences at debates that have swayed elections. But they are unique occurrences and well in the past–by a few decades.
There’s the Nixon-Kennedy debate of 1960, in which Richard Nixon had a five o’clock shadow and sweated and JFK looked “handsome” to the eyes of the women who watched on TV. They swayed the election by voting with their vaginas and not their heads. And people who heard the debate on the radio thought Nixon won. But that was 56 years ago. And in the case of Cankles and Trump, they are equally old and equally unattractive. Looks won’t do anything here.
Then, there is the Jimmy Carter-Gerald Ford debate in 1976. Some blame Ford’s loss on his stark debate misstatement that “There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.” But that’s not what lost Ford the election. Ford pardoned Nixon, and in the wake of Watergate and the liberal media, Americans were enticed to choose change and go for a different choice. On top of that, as liberal as Carter turned out to be, he ran to the right of Republican Gerald Ford, who was a RINO moderate. Believe it or not, but Carter appealed to Evangelical Christians and chastised Ford for not being pro-Israel enough. Yes, newsflash: candidates lie (big time) when they campaign. Carter was a stronger campaigner than the milquetoast, “low energy” Ford. He was younger and promised America he would give us a new start. (Sadly, his “new start” was neither new nor a start, just an inept disaster. And we needed another new start in the form of Ronald Reagan to begin to recover from it.)
So, tonight, unless someone really messes up (or Hillary Clinton falls or faints again or can’t stop coughing), I don’t think it will make a difference.
Remember, most Americans already know what they think of both Trump and Cankles. They are the two most well-known candidates in American history. And most people know for whom they are voting. It’s a small sliver of undecideds that tonight’s debate is meant to sway. But if you’re undecided at this point, you’re basically a moron. So nothing they say or do tonight is liable to make an impression. It’s even less likely to remembered by the time November comes. Morons don’t have good memories (though the Dems will definitely get them out to vote.)
I’m still excited to watch tonight, but I think that in the end it won’t really be that exciting. It definitely won’t live up to the hype. I predict it will be a giant letdown. Gone will be much of Trump’s bombast from the primary debates. He can’t talk about Hillary’s penis size (it might rival his own). And a lot of policy jargon will be uttered.
And in the end, tonight’s debate will be an ephemeral memory. Come election day, nobody will care what was said last night. If they can even remember.
There’s only one thing I know for sure about tonight’s debate: when Cankles’ mouth opens, testicles will retract en masse across America.
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Do you think tonight’s debate will mean much? What do you predict will happen?
By the end of the debate this evening, it’ll be hypothesized by scholarly political-theorists who are “independent” that doesn’t exhibit cognitive-confirmation bias in their teleological arsenal will determine who won the debate between Ms. Clinton and Mr. Trump. But my assertion tells that Trump will win this, due to him being in better conditional shape than Hillary, who’s allegedly unhealthy with health issues (remember her collapsing two weeks ago on September 11, where she lost one of her shoes in the process that slid underneath the van?).
I think this is Trump’s election to “lose”, due to as I’ve said according to my theoretical perspective is that Ms. Clinton has argued that she’ll continue the same policies that Obama is currently enacting on this nation (okay, she didn’t overtly said it like that, but if you’ve comprehended what she argued, you’ll/we’d figured out what she meant) and it’s not popular and a great degree of the American public are antithetical to Mr. Obama’s policies. Also, Ms. Clinton is the epitome of the “status-quo”, where she’s popular, but unpopular with us the general-body population.
Nor this isn’t me proclaiming that Donald Trump is perfect, he’s FAR from it, the only thing were I’m a little troubled with Trump is on half of his trade-policies, but Trump is right notwithstanding to “TPP”, which will be a detriment to our economy of more and more jobs being outsourced to other nations, where it’ll be a causation of more inequality and fewer opportunities, et al!
Sean R. on September 26, 2016 at 5:29 pm