West Wing Debate Recap
D | Tuesday, November 08, 2005

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Last Sunday night was The West Wing's Live Debate.

1. My mom thought it was boring. Admittedly, she thinks the real presidential debates are boring.

2. Ashley thought it was written by (lily-livered, bleeding-heart, liberal, egg head, communist) Democrats. I would concede the point.

3. Two guys on cable news debated whether the show reflected reality. Yes, Kerry did vote "for it before he voted against it." And yes, Bush did propose massive tax cuts. But .

I found it 1. interesting, 2. not written by (gun-totin', red-neck-son-of-a-bitch) Republicans, and 3. loosely based on reality (only on TV can two candidates abandon the established rules and frankly debate issues while wandering the stage).

Shockingly, West Wing viewers think Santos won the debates. According to a Zogby poll (Hat Tip: Kevin at work), Santos won with 54% while Vinick picked up 38%. These numbers show an interesting (or uninteresting) change from pre-debate polling (yes, they did pre-debate polling for a TV show) of Santos 59 and Vinick 29. I still think Santos will prevail at the end of the season.

D | 11/08/2005 08:22:00 PM |   Post your comment

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"End of the season?" Aren't they having the election soon jackass?
Anonymous | November 09, 2005 12:02 AM | permalink
 

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I have no idea, bastard (my unnecessary name calling).

Sometimes WW stretches one day into two episodes (24 hours in America). Sometimes one episode can cover an entire week (100,000 Airplanes). I don't know if the election will be soon or if they will try to stretch it towards the end of the season. They have already had 7 episodes this season (about 1/3 of a season). Who knows how long they will try to make this last...?

But thanks for reading carefully.
D | November 09, 2005 11:48 AM | permalink
 

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Not sure if you've seen this, but it's an intersting (though rather superficial) take on the WW debate by the MSM.
Alex | November 10, 2005 10:22 PM | permalink
 

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