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Originally Posted by kane
When she could get into trouble is when they ask about things she is unprepared for of if they let the candidates ask each other questions.
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I don't think they're going to allow candidate interaction. This is why it's a Palin bonus.
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Originally Posted by kane
Also she is a radical religous conservative and she needs to be able to effectivly hide that during the debate. Her views are good for the party base, but not for the general public. If she lets it slip that she thinks books should be banned or even rape and incest victims should be forced to have their babies she will turn off a lot of the independent voters.
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The only thing would be the abortion policy question, but I'm not sure they're going to cover that again. I think it's a non-issue at this point. The conservative base loves her pro-life stance, liberals don't. Nobody is going to gain or lose ground on that. I don't think they're going to get into personal beliefs either which has been covered in interviews. I think focus is going to be on policy, experience, "how you would handle" this situation type of questions, economy. And focus/attacks will be levelled at the top of each ticket. Anything personal that may be damaging can probably be easily avoided in her answers.
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Originally Posted by kane
Tonight she can't really help McCain a whole lot, but if she fucks up she can hurt him badly. He is on the ropes and she could cause him a lot of heartache by screwing up tonight. She might surprise people by doing decently, but I think the odds are that she will not. All the spotlights are on her.
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My feeling is that script or no script, chances are she's going to struggle. The interviews weren't long in duration and she had to fumble around with answers. This is 90 minutes of presumably indepth discussion. For somebody that doesn't seem to be knowleagable on national and international affairs and economic policy, or even the track record of her own running mate, it'll be trying. But it can be pulled off. The best thing to do is the turn every question around somehow to focus on Obama and try to showcase his weaknesses.
I just think that lots of "prep" for a debate like this for somebody so unprepared is like cramming for an exam at the last minute when you didn't even go to classes throughout the school year. I've done it, and it didn't turn out well.