• @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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        15 months ago

        Didn’t Trump gain support from the debate while Biden lost it to the degree that people from his own party are openly calling for him to drop out?

          • @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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            15 months ago

            I don’t think that came up or showed in the debate so probably didn’t affect it. This is about the debate performance and its effect after all. If people didn’t care about that before the debate, they’re not going to suddenly care after it.

            • GladiusB
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              15 months ago

              You mean I take more information than just a debate to make a decision?

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                5 months ago

                I don’t know you so I can’t say. But maybe, most do that. But the debate is part of the decision making. In this instance, Biden’s performance was dogshit, which was the point. As awful as Trump is, somehow people were more put off by Biden than Trump, if we consider how the polling changed after it. And that’s just awful result for Biden.

                • GladiusB
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                  15 months ago

                  I don’t think it’s a measurement of any sort of decision making. I have taken a course in public speaking. People freeze. Or respond differently to a quiet room when there should be an audience. His performance as president is better than Trump’s ever will be. It does not measure intelligence. A great public speaker can inspire, but it’s one debate. Trump came out looking like a liar and a little boy in a suit. Plus he is a felon rapist. There is nothing that makes me think his “snapshot” is any better than Biden’s.

                  I just don’t judge people solely on what the camera captures. It’s called critical thinking by most accounts.

                  • @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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                    15 months ago

                    I realize all that, but I’m just talking based purely on general public perception and polls over the debate. The whole point of the debate was to get the public and especially fence sitters on your side. I don’t know if Trump’s behaviour managed to convince anyone that wasn’t already on his side, but it was Biden’s atrocious performance that managed to get a lot of people against him and some to side with Trump. Biden’s whole candidacy is now in question. It’s hard to make a worse job in a debate than that, that’s all I mean.