Friday, October 22, 2010

Great Debate . . .

In case you missed it: DioGuardi v Gillibrand for US Senate. This was the best debate so far this season.  To me, DioGuardi came off cool, calm, knowledgeable, authentic, independent and decisive. Gillibrand sounded remarkably like Mike Arcuri with the same stock campaigning language heard on commercials - - - which makes you wonder if they have a school for this stuff somewhere. The "Lightening Round" near the end where the candidates could only give a Yes or No answer was especially telling.  Gillibrand does NOT think the Tea Party movement has been a good thing and does NOT think that Andrew Cuomo should debate 1-on-1 with Carl Paladino.  That says it all.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

They do have schools for this stuff. Both parties run actual campaign schools attended by people who run campaigns. But, I think in the case of Arcuri and Gillibrand, they work off of provided talking points.