ext_242825 ([identity profile] ian-tiberius.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] essentialsaltes 2016-09-27 03:33 am (UTC)

"Trump's answer on the race issue was completely tone-deaf."

eh...if you're a person of color, or a white liberal, sure. But there's a large portion of the electorate that will eat that shit up with a spoon.

"If I had been Clinton, one wonky thing I would have hit him with is..."

I think it was pretty clear that her advisors instructed her to avoid wonking too hard. The intellectual members of the electorate are already 99% for Clinton. Now she needs to win over those voters who are actually considering voting for Trump (or Johnson or Stein.) We're not talking about a bunch of geniuses here. She's not going to win them over by sounding like their 11th grade history teacher.

I agree about the needling, though. Seemed pretty clear to me that she laid a few traps that he walked into.

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