Campaign Recap 7-27-07: CNN/YouTube debate, fun with charts

*UPDATE*
Some of my numbers are slightly off, but it turns out if they were right, the graph looks even WORSE. Those were supposed to be estimates anyway, hence no exact numbers shown, but still, in the spirit of disclosure... I am blaming the gnomes for everything.
*END UPDATE*

Campaign Recap of the CNN/YouTube demoractic debate at the Citadel. This will make more sense if you watch the debate, or at least some of it. If not, hopefully you can still laugh at the red noses.

- The Sock


Debate footage:

http://youtube.com/debates

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• puppet
• sock
• campaign
• democrats
• democratic
• debate
• CNN
• youtube
• clinton
• obama
• edwards
• richardson
• biden
• dodd
• kucinich
• gravel

[myahkeitaro]

Will you do one for the youtube Republican debate?

5/5

[LowBudgetPuppets]

Posted today, despite having a lot of trouble making it.

It's so late that I may be using it as a respondse to current political news though.

I hope you like it either way.

- The Sock

[ijustwatchthesock]

the pbs debates were fair yes, but why cant we have them cover the concerns of the entire population. That is why the youtube debates were good. And yes, they focused on the frontrunners but examine the candidates from the pbs debates and you can see that obama and clinton are the strongest and most popular candidates. This is how politics work, get used to it?

[LowBudgetPuppets]

BTW, I see no "analysis" of the PBS debates that show that Obama or Clinton are the strongest candidates. Most popular... maybe, but they were hardly the only ones getting applause. In terms of actual answers to questions, not a chance.

Also, may I ask why you have a separate account dedicated to me? It's sort of weirding us out a little.

- The Sock

[LowBudgetPuppets]

2 months and then you come back out of nowhere with a spank joke? What gives.

By the way I was with Dennis Rodman last night... I'm not sure which of my brethren you used but you better be careful. The Hand's feet have had a case of athletes foot recently so you might now have a fungal dong.

- The Sock

[inotheyare]

anytime, sock! sorry about last night, it was a lonely one...

[inotheyare]

damn, that's another good one...

gravel08. us

[LowBudgetPuppets]

I just mentioned the subject limitation at the Tavis Smiley forum below, but the question is why not apply that level of balance to a larger area of subjects like there were in the YT debate.

I don't plan to "get used to it" and neither should you if you care. Those candiates are leading because of exposure, (usually) not character or stances. With more equal exposure, the general populace might start to change it's mind.

- The Sock

[LowBudgetPuppets]

Yup. If you saw the PBS forum (dems) it wasn't that bad. The questions had more to do with race/class/health so it didn't cover the whole spectrum, but the format was so much better it wasn't funny.

Maybe if only half of the Republicans show up in September, it will be more interesting ;)

- The Sock