2 posts tagged “presidential cannidates”
Instead of live blogging the debates (in part because i don't understand their cannidate field as well), this time I'm trying out MSNBC's experiment. In this interactive feature, you can watch a short video clip of each cannidate talking about the issues and indicate whether you have a positive or negative impression of them. You can save your results for each cannidate. Then, after (watching) the debates you can see new clips of the cannidates speaking in the debate and indicate your impression of them, so you can see if it changed.
Not a bad idea, although it's not exactly an indcative poll. I'll stick my neck out a little bit (please keep in mind that I am a left-leaning independant) and share my picks now, to compare later. These rating are mostly relative to this field of cannidates, and are not necessarily indicative of how i'd vote in a general election, and I do not plan on voting during my state's Republican primary. I promise not to flip-flop by changing my previously stated stances, unlike many of the cannidates on stage tonight...
(see also: last week's liveblog of the Democratic debates)
Key:
"+" = positive impression, (if color is green indicates postive change)
"-" = negative impression (if color is red indicates negative change)
Plus: I liveblogged using roughly the verbose and disposition of a gossipy 14-year old girl addicted to myspace, fergie, and ytmnd, except using the terminology and in-jokes of the Meet the Press clique i'm so totally in.
Minus: I know exactly how many of you would roll eyes if I posted something this long here, but I just finished live blogging the democratic presidential candidate debates that took place tonight.
spoiler: DK isn't donkey kong
warning: contains beltway jargon, irreverant humor, and innuendo
here's few choice clips and their corresponding blog matches:
6:31 - i think mike and denis are totally getting a beer after this debate. they’re gonna party, and dennis is gonna break the “wild-eyed” talk to let him down real easy
