Tuesday is a big day

Tuesday, jog my memory

Sure

Also I'm back in Flahrida

Never been happier to be back home.

after time in filthadelphia and DC, that's not surprising

Yeah I may have fictionalized a bit

Kemp is gonna win on Tuesday - question is, at what margin

I may have been in NYC the whole time

Or in Phoenix

Who knows for sure

who knows

Maybe I never left

But I'll definitely be there for the debate

Can't wait to see Stewart in action, Kaine is a horrible debater as the Pence debate showed

I'm watching it right now

Hi watching it right now, I'm Dad!

48 minutes into the video

Kaine did get a good comeback that generated applause from the audience (likely full of his supporters)

now, Kaine has some major weaknesses though. The biggest one in my opinion is the same one he had in his debate with Pence - his body language, facial expressions, mannerisms

his eyebrows are perpetually raised, and when he talks he has this forced smile that reverts to a rage filled murderous frown whenever he stops talking

Kaine seems to like this talking point "Corey Stewart promised to make his campaign vicious - that means...make it personal, make it nasty, make it up"

(something like that)

at around the 52 minute mark, Kaine has some awkward delivery

it took a 5 second silent pause before he said his son is in the military

it was like "I support the military........................................................................................my son is in the military"

Guys

This is Big

https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1020822611830476800?s=09

Holy crap

Damn

Is this the end for Chinumpf?

He also called China a Currency Manipulator

Corey Stewart's modus operandi in this debate seems to be to grandstand for the base and attack Kaine as an extremist. Tim Kaine's modus operandi is to try to present himself as a reasonable middle ground politician who is being unfairly attacked in an appalling, vicious manner.

Sadly I'll give it a slight edge to Kaine based on the performance so far because Stewart's base is going to vote for Stewart regardless. Kaine was also speaking to his base, and probably looks more appealing to middle of the road voters. Stewart can still successfully argue that Kaine is extreme, but so far it's convincing enough.

Kaine might not win as many middle of the road voters as I might think though, merely because of his awful body language.

I think the results of this debate are going to be mostly inconclusive

Stewart's base will definitely not vote for Kaine after this. They probably loved what he had to say - the trouble is, they already plan to vote for him anyway. However, I think Stewart's main path to victory is to energize his base tremendously,and there might be quite a few right-wingers in Virginia who don't know much about him yet.

The same thing applies to Kaine. I don't think Kaine's base will go over to Stewart because of this.

the ones in the middle? They might be swayed by Kaine's rhetorical tricks and the applause it generated from the audience, but hopefully his awful body language can stymie that

Well the idea of attacking Kaine as an extremist isn't so much to make them flip but to keep them home

It allows Stewart to energize his base while depressing turnout for Kaine, overall, to make the Karens stay home as they'll see neither candidate as palatable

Kaine has repeated the "make it nasty, make it personal,make it up" phrase so many times that it probably seems stale to the middle of the road voters

the question is, the middle of the road voters have to believe that Kaine is an extremist first. Stewart is his opponent, and has baggage, which can easily make them skeptical of his claims that Kaine is an extremist

It's the strategy, Stewart's part is to make that strategy work

Now I have been worked down to the nub after this last week, I'll look at that debate tomorrow probably. I've heard Stewart's radio ads but I haven't seen him in action yet.

@ThatRightWingFish I cannot truly emphasise how important that is.

The more their deficit increases, the less they can afford to become a workshop of the world.