RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:I have a #take on these fake Internet polls that show Trump winning that he's touting, getting people upset due to spreading misinformation - I think it's fantastic. Trump seems to search for any sort of validation, and grabs onto it for dear life. He has surrounded himself with sycophants who are desperate to keep him happy at the expense of telling him news he should hear. He is probably dumb enough not to really know the difference between the CNN poll and the Drudge poll. He is so #$!&@ lazy and incurious that he will take any excuse possible to have the same level of limited to no preparation for the next debate - after all, it worked this time! He is so insulated in his only going on FOX shows and even then only going on the 2-3 that are still consistently nice to him that an outside bursting of this bubble seems unlikely. And so he will go into the next debate as outgunned as he was yesterday.

I totally agree with all of this. I was worried that his performance would be seen as so bad that he'd actually work for the next one--much like his campaign was such a trainwreck after the RNC that he actually listened to his professional advisers for a while.

I think you're right that we'll see basically the same Trump next time around.

JUburton wrote:

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:I have a #take on these fake Internet polls that show Trump winning that he's touting, getting people upset due to spreading misinformation - I think it's fantastic. Trump seems to search for any sort of validation, and grabs onto it for dear life. He has surrounded himself with sycophants who are desperate to keep him happy at the expense of telling him news he should hear. He is probably dumb enough not to really know the difference between the CNN poll and the Drudge poll. He is so #$!&@ lazy and incurious that he will take any excuse possible to have the same level of limited to no preparation for the next debate - after all, it worked this time! He is so insulated in his only going on FOX shows and even then only going on the 2-3 that are still consistently nice to him that an outside bursting of this bubble seems unlikely. And so he will go into the next debate as outgunned as he was yesterday.

I totally agree with all of this. I was worried that his performance would be seen as so bad that he'd actually work for the next one--much like his campaign was such a trainwreck after the RNC that he actually listened to his professional advisers for a while.

I think you're right that we'll see basically the same Trump next time around.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/us/po ... .html?_r=1

Maybe not. Who knows. I think he'd do better in a town hall but I'm not certain.

NY Times wrote:Campaign advisers to Donald J. Trump, concerned that his focus and objectives had dissolved during the first presidential debate on Monday, plan to more rigorously prepare him for his next face-off with Hillary Clinton by drilling the Republican nominee on crucial answers, facts and counterattacks, and by coaching him on ways to whack Mrs. Clinton on issues even if he is not asked about them.

Whether he is open to practicing meticulously is a major concern, however, according to some of these advisers and others close to Mr. Trump.

pacino wrote:might just be hoping they get some good 'why did you kill people in benghazi with your bare hands' questions in the 2nd and a bunch of email questions in the 3rd from Chris Wallace

pacino wrote:might just be hoping they get some good 'why did you kill people in benghazi with your bare hands' questions in the 2nd and a bunch of email questions in the 3rd from Chris Wallace

i would assume he'll try to just continuously attack her from now on.

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:

pacino wrote:you're getting into the 'HIllary has brain cancer' territory. He's just not very smart.

speaking of which Howard Dean is even trying to defend his coke comment about Trump, incredibly disappointing to see him stoop to the same level

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:Does anyone else wonder if Trump's rambling speech and inability to control himself might be early signs of alzheimers? Seriously, he reminds me of some really old people I have known. He can't complete a thought without going off on some tangent and he's losing control of his aggressiveness. He's 70 years old.

He's always talked like this... he just usually avoided speaking on issues that weren't in his wheelhouse.

The Dude wrote:yeah, he's always been unfocused and a bad speaker. check out the piece his biographer wrote about him

The Dude wrote:no. should i?

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:The Anti-Defamation League just declared our least-favorite cartoon frog to be a hate symbol.

http://time.com/4510849/pepe-the-frog-adl-hate-symbol/

Cue the Donald Jr. retweets.

pacino wrote:new Reuters poll shows Johnson/Stein totaling only 9%. good sign

she's basically neutral as far as favorability goes and he's still negative 14.