2008-04-17

Nattens debatt

Jag återkommer med mer info och synpunkter lite senare. Tills vidare kan ni hålla till goda med vad andra säger om nattens drabbning mellan Barack Obama och Hillary Clinton:

"This was not a good debate for Obama, period. But it wasn't a great debate for Clinton either. Of course, that may not matter to Team Clinton. In a two-way debate, it's not about which candidate narrowly wins -- but which candidate gets pummeled in the post-debate reviews. And Obama will get pummeled because well he did get pummeled, a little bit by Clinton and a little bit by the moderators."

-Chuck Todd, NBC

"The result was arguably one of Mr. Obama’s weakest debate performances. He at times appeared annoyed as he sought to answer questions about his former pastor, his reluctance to wear an American flag pin on his lapel and his association in Chicago with former members of the Weather Underground, a radical group that carried out bombings in the 1960s that were intended to incite the overthrow of the government."

-NY Times

"Likely to the delight of Hillary Clinton's battered campaign, the New York Senator's rival spent most of that time on the defensive, both from Clinton and from debate moderators. But if Clinton was looking for a game-changing performance, she failed to contribute on her end, leaving both candidates without clear bragging rights."

-RealClearPolitics

Clinton, who holds a modest lead in most Pennsylvania polls, did not seem to emerge with a game-changing performance, but the intensity of the questioning of Obama could aid her long-term goal of casting doubt among superdelegates about his candidacy.

-Politico

"Keeping the score card, there's no way Obama could fared worse. Nearly 45 minutes of relentless political scrutiny from the ABC anchors and from Hillary Clinton, followed by an issues-and-answers session in which his anger carried over and sort of neutered him. But Hillary Clinton has a Reverse-Teflon problem: her negatives are up, and when she's perceived as the attacker, the attacks never seem to settle on Obama and always seem to boomerang back on her. So it would be unwise to declare that Hillary "won" the debate in the dynamic sense just yet."

Marc Ambinder, The Atlantic

2 kommentarer:

Johan Ingerö sa...

Är det inte konstigt att Stephanopoulos var med och ledde debatten, med tanke på hans historia i Bill Clintons administration?

Mathias Sundin sa...

Jo, men han har väl varit på TV rätt länge nu. Och intervjuar alla kandidater mm.