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JALLEN wrote:Here is an interesting take on the "debate" from Scott Adams (Dilbert):

Trump and Clinton debated each other for the first time last night. Here’s how I score the night.

Clinton won on points. She had more command of the details and the cleaner answers. Trump did a lot of interrupting and he was defensive. If this were a college debate competition, Clinton would be declared the winner. I call that victory on the 2D chess board. But voters don’t care about facts and debating style. They care about how they feel. So let’s talk about that.
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http://blog.dilbert.com/post/1510077962 ... rst-debate

LOL, yes! This is exactly what she looked like!

"Clinton’s smile seemed forced, artificial, and frankly creepy. I’m already hearing on Twitter that mentioning a woman’s smile is sexist. I understand the point. But when someone goes full Joker-face and tests the uncanny valley hypothesis at the same time, that’s a bit different from telling a woman to “smile more.” My neighbor Kristina hypothesized that Botox was making her smile look unnatural. Science tells us that when a person’s mouth smiles, but their eyes don’t match the smile, they look disingenuous if not creepy. Botox on your crow’s feet lines around your eyes can give that effect. But whatever the reason, something looked off to me."

Professional liars are just that, really really good at telling tales to fit their agenda. And politicians who have spent decades creating the problems that we now have are professional liars and have much more practice at looking very good during debates. This was Trumps very first one on one debate, and he not only had to deal with that but also that the moderator demonstrated some clear bias against him. I agree that he could have come across better, and that he missed some opportunities to really nail the professional liar. But hopefully the point that he isn't a career politician who has had decades to solve the problems and failed, will continue to resonate with voters. And hopefully he's learned a lot from this first opportunity.