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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Dunno if anyone posted this, but here's a live fact check of the entire presidential debate, for those interested.
My overall impression: Overall Clinton won big (again) and Trump looked like a fool, but the moderater called out Clinton on a couple things that don't sit quite well with me. I'm still all for Clinton, but the idea of a conflict with Russia gets my anxiety going.
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison@Parable: I'm not sure what debate they watched if that's the case, and that gets me a bit worried that somehow through some media sorcery and extreme bell curves, Trump "won." Not that it'll matter at this point. Either he's headed for a decisive loss or there's a huge polling error (turnout collapsing for some reason is the only possibility that's even remotely plausible) that won't be apparent until the election is over.
edited 19th Oct '16 7:44:25 PM by CaptainCapsase

edited 19th Oct '16 7:35:21 PM by AceofSpades