I don't think Harris did _quite_ as well as a lot of the pundits seem to. There have been a handful of debate moments in my life where you could feel the entire axis of a campaign shift under your feet, and I didn't feel that here.
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I don't think Harris did _quite_ as well as a lot of the pundits seem to. There have been a handful of debate moments in my life where you could feel the entire axis of a campaign shift under your feet, and I didn't feel that here.
But she accomplished the main thing she needed to accomplish, which was to show that she could stand next to Trump on the debate stage, trade punches, and give as least as good as she got. Since she's not a familiar figure, that's what most people's big question about her is going to be: is she up to this? And she demonstrated that she clearly is.
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
Of course if you dig deep enough into the Usenet archives you can find a post by me from the wee hours of May 20, 1999 raving that Star Wars Episode I is the best movie in the series. So maybe take my insta-takes with a grain of salt
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You weren’t wrong.
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@thegibson Meesa thinking I was
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
Also note that a truism about debates is that what actually happened in the debate matters a lot less than the conventional wisdom that congeals around it in the media in the hours immediately following. That CW is congealing right now, and so far it seems to be thinking Harris accomplished more than I'm giving her credit for.
Media conventional wisdom is like concrete: it takes a little while to set, but once it's set, it is SET. So watch the pundits' social media accounts over the next few hours. By tomorrow morning the concrete will have dried.
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
Josh Marshall makes a similar point in his liveblog at TPM, though he thinks he accomplished more than I did.