More Debate After-Action Reporting
A few tidbits:
It seemed that neither the Fox News folks, nor the panoply of pundits on Hardball last night thought Cruz did all that well. As one commentator observered: Arianna did all the attacking, leaving the only thing for Cruz to do was apologie for the mistakes that had been made in CA fiscal governance.
Another rather important observation that several folks made: McClintock didn't attack Arnold--which is interesting, given that Arnie is Tom's main foe n this contest in many ways. If McC wants to win, then he has to take Arnie out--and he didn't even try last night.
Another good observation in re: McClintock was that while he did a really good job of presenting his conservative solutions to the state's woes, he didn't say anything that would help expand his appeal. In other words, based on what he said last night, he at best solidified his conservative support, but did nothing to expand his potential voting base.
Back to Cruz--he clearly is confident that he is the front-runner, and decided that a passive, above the fray, "I'm the professional amongst the clowns" approach was the way to go.
I am interested to see the net set of poll numbers.
Posted by Steven Taylor at September 25, 2024 06:56 AM
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