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Feingold Debate Tonight

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Elections
Posted on Fri Oct 08, 2010 at 05:01:42 PM EST
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Russ Feingold debates tonight:

Johnson vs. Feingold, Round 1, is on for tonight. Republican challenger Ron Johnson and three-term incumbent Democratic U.S. Russ Feingold will square off for an hour starting at 8 p.m. in the first of three televised debates scheduled before the Nov. 2 election.

Cheddar for Russ here. The debate will be broadcast on C-Span.

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    Feingold Won (5.00 / 4) (#1)
    by Sparty on Fri Oct 08, 2010 at 10:20:48 PM EST
    Thanks for letting me know about this debate, I tuned in and watched via C-Span thanks to Talk Left and wouldn't have known about this debate had it not been for this post. First off I'm not some Democrat troll or someone pretending to be a Republican, I'm a 34 year old Republican out of West Michigan who has since my first Bob Dole vote always voted straight party Republican. So I'm honestly sad to say Feingold cleaned his clock tonight and made Johnson look like a know nothing moron.

    I'm not going to debate Talk Left liberals, this is your site and I'm just commenting in passing and hopefully respectfully, but Fiengold tackled the health care vote perfectly tonight and if Democrats were smart they would study his responses in this debate - now I disagree with Feingold and I won't waste our time debating the fine points of what he said or didn't say, but disagree or not with him, Feingold framed his vote in a way in which voters would like and did so a hundred thousand times better than the Pelosi, Reid, and Obama messaging.

    If you hate a Republican like me commenting, forgive me for commenting, I'm just the kind of guy who is willing to admit to a opinion whether it be advantageous or not for my political leanings ... and Feingold won by a mile. When I lose I'm still the kind of guy to say good game.

    Your thoughts are all the more welcome (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by Cream City on Fri Oct 08, 2010 at 10:34:59 PM EST
    to me because of your perspective -- as a non-Wisconsinite, as a non-Dem.

    The format was lousy tonight; a lot of questions were not asked that ought to have been, or you might have seen even more of why Johnson ought to be worrisome for all of us.  He simply is not at all prepared for the Senate, for public service.  

    Watch for the third debate (there were to be twice as many, but Johnson wisely has gone below the radar -- won't even give interviews now), if it's on C-Span.  It will be a town-hall format, which could be far better.

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    Hard to believe such (none / 0) (#3)
    by brodie on Fri Oct 08, 2010 at 11:11:24 PM EST
    an intelligent experienced senator, so deeply steeped in the issues, so knowledgable about his state, could fall to such a lightweight mediocrity as Johnson, who seemed a bit unsteady at times and who also seemed to want to just get this debate night over with without committing any major gaffes.

    Didn't see all the debate, but did see Feingold score good points off Johnson on foreign policy and the Repub's lame stance about not questioning a president's war policy as the war is ongoing.

    Dunno, however, if there were enough strong, dominant newsworthy moments for Feingold to get traction with this one debate.  He's a naturally soft-spoken guy who tends to win on points rather than with the dramatic knockout.

    Perhaps he keeps his nose to the grindstone (none / 0) (#4)
    by Inspector Gadget on Sun Oct 10, 2010 at 12:53:01 AM EST
    and focused on his work.

    We've got a debate coming up between our D Senator Murray and her R opponent, 3 time loser, Dino Rossi. My guess is the viewership will be minimal.

    His ads are void of substance, and solid whining with bald face lies, but he is gaining ground according to the polls. There are people who comment here, and on other "liberal" blogs who declare they don't care how bad the R is, they are going to firmly stand down and refuse to vote come November. I can only pray that the polls are as far off on this race as they were when this guy ran for Governor 2 years ago (neck and neck in the polls, lost by a landslide on election day).

    I truly hope that the "former" D's who are claiming they will withhold their votes this election, don't actually hand the country over to the R's by doing that.


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