{"id":5360,"date":"2012-10-16T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5360"},"modified":"2012-10-16T10:34:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T16:34:48","slug":"who-prevails-this-evening-depends-not-only-on-how-each-candidate-does-but-also-on-how-their-supporters-react-ej-dionne-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/who-prevails-this-evening-depends-not-only-on-how-each-candidate-does-but-also-on-how-their-supporters-react-ej-dionne-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"“Who prevails this evening depends not only on how each candidate does but also on how their supporters react.” – EJ Dionne, Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gaming the town hall debate – PostPartisan – The Washington Post<\/a> <\/p>\n

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Who prevails this evening depends not only on how each candidate does but also on how their supporters react. \u2026<\/p>\n

First and foremost, [Obama] needs to show that he really wants to keep his job, and that he\u2019s happy to fight for it. The most disconcerting aspect of the first debate wasn\u2019t that Obama failed to go after Romney\u2019s shape-shifting and untruths, though that was a problem. It\u2019s that Obama was utterly disengaged and seemed to have no desire to battle for a second term. A number of Obama supporters I spoke with after Debate One said they felt that were fighting harder for Obama\u2019s reelection than he was. This time, he needs to convey spirit, energy and a little joy. \u2026<\/p>\n

Republican spin-meisters did not worry in the least that they might have contradicted themselves by saying that Romney\u2019s aggressiveness against Obama was a sign of leadership while Biden\u2019s aggressiveness against Ryan was a sign of disrespect. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Gaming the town hall debate – PostPartisan – The Washington Post Who prevails this evening depends not only on how each candidate does but also on how their supporters react. \u2026 First and foremost, [Obama] needs to show that he really wants to keep his job, and that he\u2019s happy to fight for it. The … Continue reading “Who prevails this evening depends not only on how each candidate does but also on how their supporters react.” – EJ Dionne, Jr<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5361,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360\/revisions\/5361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}