I guess everybody is watching...

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18 August 2020, 05:41 PM

Nina

I guess everybody is watching...

I was listening to an opiner who pointed out something I hadn't considered. This is the first case in memory (perhaps in history?) where the incumbent was losing in the polls BEFORE the challenger's party convention. In a more typical situation, the hoped for outcome of the convention is the "post convention bounce." Biden doesn't need that. The hoped for outcome here is to present his story, his people, come out from the basement, and have his poll numbers stay the same. The importance of the bounce is far, far less this year.

18 August 2020, 08:17 PM

wtg

quote:
Originally posted by jon-nyc:
Michelle is killing it.

quote:
Originally posted by Steve Miller:
And Michelle crushed it!

The folks at Fox thought so, too.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/...-reviews-on-fox-news

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18 August 2020, 09:36 PM

jon-nyc

Is it just me or does Caroline Kennedy look not as healthy as you’d expect a 62 year old Kennedy to look?

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18 August 2020, 09:51 PM

jon-nyc

Delaware passes?!?

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18 August 2020, 09:57 PM

jon-nyc

I guess they’ll come back in later to put him over the top?

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18 August 2020, 11:12 PM

jon-nyc

Clinton would have done 10x better in front of an audience of thousands.

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19 August 2020, 10:25 AM

jon-nyc

Seen on Twitter:

“Six months ago people thought there was a legitimate chance this would be a historic brokered convention, with real-life dealmaking, lobbying, and strategizing. The peak of high-stakes political drama. Now we're all sitting in our sweatpants watching infomercials on YouTube”

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20 August 2020, 10:54 PM

jon-nyc

He’s doing well in his speech

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20 August 2020, 11:12 PM

jon-nyc

Really well.

The GOP made a strategic error talking about him all the time like he’s an Alzheimer’s patient. They set expectations very low and Joe is knocking it out of the park.

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20 August 2020, 11:18 PM

Piano*Dad

I was a little surprised at how much he dwelled on the current administration, but it worked well. He was on point, passionate, and hit all of the necessary notes.

20 August 2020, 11:19 PM

jon-nyc

Good ending too.

They figured out that the quiet and golf clap from the zoom crowd is lame. They fixed it in time.

Good job, Joe. Good job, DNC.

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20 August 2020, 11:30 PM

Amanda

Lots of schmaltz, but that's the name of the game.
The MAIN thing, is he came across not only as his advocates had described, but as as competent as he had been in past speeches.

Well done, Joe! Well done, DNC! (AAnd very well done, Kamala Harris,too!)

Only druther is for the camera to have captured him as if he were speaking to the audience, eye to eye. I guess it was impossible, though, while he was reading the teleprompter. (I was watching on NYTimes broadcast, in case there was a difference.)

The greatest success was what he did NOT fall prey to - uncertain or wobbly speech, repetitiveness. And good choice to have him end on strong note, challenging bad guys (at home and abroad) and promising to deliver very different results! (More than any human being could deliver, but so what at the "inflection point" in this so-crucial election?)

PS I also salute the DNC's decisions on ways to show the unity of Biden's former adversaries.
Brilliant tactic!

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20 August 2020, 11:33 PM

Yup.

Let's have his USA

Again.

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21 August 2020, 12:00 AM

Steve Miller

Joe kicked ass.

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21 August 2020, 12:05 AM

jon-nyc

Even FoxNews called it “the most forceful and steely speech of his career” in their write up.

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