From the new west blog: Presidential Election
The First Debate: How Did it Go?
A roundup of debate reviews from traditional and new media.By Jill Kuraitis, 9-27-08
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If you missed Friday’s presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain, you can listen here on NPR.
For a broad perspective, Politico’s “The Arena” has more than a dozen reviews written by professors, foreign policy fellows, activists, authors, historians, strategists and notable intelligentsia.
The New York Times’ “The Caucus,” a blog written by its political staff, has multiple points of view.
The New Republic thinks both Obama and McCain lost.
The National Review declares McCain the winner.
A CNN poll resulted in advantage: Obama.
McClatchy newspapers, which include the Idaho Statesman, has a good fact-checking piece.
Here’s another review from McClatchy.
And CNN’s analysis, “A Few Jabs, but no Knockout in First Debate.”
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Comments
Unemployment is going up because of the troubled economy yet Obama wants to pile onto entrepreneurs tax burden for his “Robin Hood Entitlements” which will result in increased job loss.
How can someone married to such entitlement spending increases be good for this troubled economy?