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Audience laughs at shaheen for ducking question on obama

US Conservative said:
There were ****ty interviewers there as well, remember that hog in the Presidential debate?

Both sides have to deal with them so its just part of the game, right?

Back to the topic, why do you think the audience was mostly republican?
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They laughed.
 
Bigfoot 88 said:
I actually think this is a good answer. Much better than Grimes/Nunn/Tennant who can't make up their mind whether they voted for Obama or not.
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Luftwaffe said:
I don't get what you're so discontent with US conservative.

Some policies = yes

other policies = no

That is extremely direct, you're just being a hack.

If anyone was stupid, it was the guy who asked the question. Not everyone in the party is 100% unified on every issue, it would be stupid to think otherwise. Joesteel is right, the audience is filled with morons.
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That's a good answer when she votes Obama's policies 99% of the time? Apparently the morons are the ones who can't read for comprehension or just agree with a fence sitter response, when apparently she isn't, because they are the partisan hacks.
 
Joe Steel said:
They laughed.
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I know liberals aren't exactly the happiest people but they dont laugh?
What about people in general, dont they laugh when funny things happen?
You dont think a politician trying to dance around the truth is funny?
Or is it because she's a democrat that this MUST be a conspiracy against her?
 
Μολὼν λαβέ;1063897972 said:
That's a good answer when she votes Obama's policies 99% of the time? Apparently the morons are the ones who can't read for comprehension or just agree with a fence sitter response, when apparently she isn't, because they are the partisan hacks.
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These guys are head deep libs, to them this is anything but funny, and they can't imagine how people might see them as hacks.
 
US Conservative said:
I know liberals aren't exactly the happiest people but they dont laugh?
What about people in general, dont they laugh when funny things happen?
You dont think a politician trying to dance around the truth is funny?
Or is it because she's a democrat that this MUST be a conspiracy against her?
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The answer was reasonable. Laughing at it was inappropriate so something else must have been at work. In my opinion that was partisan zealotry.
 
Joe Steel said:
The answer was reasonable. Laughing at it was inappropriate so something else must have been at work. In my opinion that was partisan zealotry.
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I dont think its reasonable to reflexively (instantly, without evidence) simply dismiss the crowd as "republicans". You admit you dont know that, but you still choose that for a reason.

How do you know it was inappropriate? Did you watch the debate? Are you intimately familiar with the NH campaign?

And finally-to be clear you know that the people laughing were "partisan zealots"...but is there any partisan zealotry in your response?
 
US Conservative said:
Sen Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) was laughed at by the audience at the New Hampshire Senate Debate on Tuesday when she would not give a clear answer on whether she approved of the job President Obama is doing.



When asked to give a simple, yes or no response to a hypothetical pollster asking, “do you approve of the job President Obama is doing?” Shaheen responded, “in some ways I approve, and some things I don't approve,” a line that caused the audience to start laughing. She continued “like most questions that we deal with as policymakers there aren’t simple answers, yes or no.”

cont... Audience Laughs at Shaheen for Ducking Question on Obama


So she votes with Obama 99% of the time and somehow can't answer the question?

Watching dems jump ship is well, entertaining. Anybody else want some popcorn? :popcorn2:
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She is in surprisingly big trouble here in NH. She was a popular governor, then went on to beat John Sununu (the younger) who was our incumbent senator in 2008. She rode the 2008 Obama wave. I had a bumper sticker on my last car that said "Don't blame me....I voted for Sununu" (they were very popular up here).

She is widely being panned for the debate performance up here, and in NH, we take our debates very seriously. She was called stiff, awkward, hostile, dishonest and other not so nice terms by our local media.

Brown has run a stellar campaign. And his ads are brilliant - hers not so much.

She should have ridden to an easy victory, and she's in the fight for her life against Brown. New poll out today shows Brown ahead by 1 point.

I detest Shaheen. I always did. She has no integrity, she's a follower, she's inarticulate, and she whines. Will she lose? Who knows.....12 days is an eternity in a politically-charged state like NH. She & Brown have another debate next week. I suspect she'll be better prepared and her staffers have read and listened to all the criticism of this performance, and she - like Obama did after the disastrous debate with Romney - will change up.
 
tres borrachos said:
And you'd be wrong.
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Why do you say that?

Democrats always have to deal with lack of interests in the midterms. That's a large part of the problem the Democrats are facing now. Assuming the audience at a midterm debate mostly is Republican seems reasonable.
 
Joe Steel said:
Why do you say that?

Democrats always have to deal with lack of interests in the midterms. That's a large part of the problem the Democrats are facing now. Assuming the audience at a midterm debate mostly is Republican seems reasonable.
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Because I live in NH. There is no lack of interest in the midterms here. There was an equal amount of representation there.
 
US Conservative said:
Sen Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) was laughed at by the audience at the New Hampshire Senate Debate on Tuesday when she would not give a clear answer on whether she approved of the job President Obama is doing.
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What's that sound?
Oh yeah....it's the sound of a trainwreck.
 
tres borrachos said:
She is in surprisingly big trouble here in NH. She was a popular governor, then went on to beat John Sununu (the younger) who was our incumbent senator in 2008. She rode the 2008 Obama wave. I had a bumper sticker on my last car that said "Don't blame me....I voted for Sununu" (they were very popular up here).

She is widely being panned for the debate performance up here, and in NH, we take our debates very seriously. She was called stiff, awkward, hostile, dishonest and other not so nice terms by our local media.

Brown has run a stellar campaign. And his ads are brilliant - hers not so much.

She should have ridden to an easy victory, and she's in the fight for her life against Brown. New poll out today shows Brown ahead by 1 point.

I detest Shaheen. I always did. She has no integrity, she's a follower, she's inarticulate, and she whines. Will she lose? Who knows.....12 days is an eternity in a politically-charged state like NH. She & Brown have another debate next week. I suspect she'll be better prepared and her staffers have read and listened to all the criticism of this performance, and she - like Obama did after the disastrous debate with Romney - will change up.
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I was researching that race yesterday, I think 3 of 6 polls showed brown up by 1 or 2. Considering where she was thats interesting. Brown appears to be running a good race, apparently like in MA.
 
Joe Steel said:
Why do you say that?

Democrats always have to deal with lack of interests in the midterms. That's a large part of the problem the Democrats are facing now. Assuming the audience at a midterm debate mostly is Republican seems reasonable.
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Dems have to deal with the handout crowd staying home in the midterms.
 
US Conservative said:
I was researching that race yesterday, I think 3 of 6 polls showed brown up by 1 or 2. Considering where she was thats interesting. Brown appears to be running a good race, apparently like in MA.
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He is. I didn't vote for him in the primary (I voted for Jim Rubens) but I do support Brown with enthusiasm. I've met him twice since he won the nomination and am really impressed with what a great man he is.

She is on the defensive in a very big way. She's relying on 2 things in her incessant attack ads: the old standby "war on women" crap, and his "big oil" connection. Lame at best. She's getting panned all over the state for her awful and baseless attacks - and she's looking like a whiny bitch at the same time.
 
Joe Steel said:
The audience must be idiots because that's a good answer. Almost no one agrees with a policy-maker all the time. For instance, Obama's stimulus and PPACA were good things but he hasn't hanged a single Republican and that's not.
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But he has killed countless Arabs without due process in drone strikes. Does that count?
 
US Conservative said:
I was researching that race yesterday, I think 3 of 6 polls showed brown up by 1 or 2. Considering where she was thats interesting. Brown appears to be running a good race, apparently like in MA.
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Here are the polls RCP lists. 6 of them, Shaheen up in 5, Brown up in 1:

RealClearPolitics - Election 2014 - New Hampshire Senate - Brown vs. Shaheen

Brown has reduced Shaheen's lead from double digits in August to the high single digits in October to now the low single digits in October. The main problem now is that Shaheen has 49% in 3 of the polls and 48% in two others. Also there are only 3-4% in the undecided column which Brown would have to win almost all of them to prevail with Shaheen's 2-3 point lead.

So the only question to be answered is how firm is that 48/49% saying they will vote for ShaHeen and can Brown change their minds? New Hampshire is looking close. But Brown faces real long odds when considering only a couple of percent are still left in the undecided column.
 
tres borrachos said:
He is. I didn't vote for him in the primary (I voted for Jim Rubens) but I do support Brown with enthusiasm. I've met him twice since he won the nomination and am really impressed with what a great man he is.

She is on the defensive in a very big way. She's relying on 2 things in her incessant attack ads: the old standby "war on women" crap, and his "big oil" connection. Lame at best. She's getting panned all over the state for her awful and baseless attacks - and she's looking like a whiny bitch at the same time.
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Its interesting that after 6 years, this is what she's been reduced to-hiding from the head of her party and shrieking about a war on women. :doh
Liberalism never delivers and only thrives on baseless attacks and other ignorance.
 
Perotista said:
Here are the polls RCP lists. 6 of them, Shaheen up in 5, Brown up in 1:

RealClearPolitics - Election 2014 - New Hampshire Senate - Brown vs. Shaheen

Brown has reduced Shaheen's lead from double digits in August to the high single digits in October to now the low single digits in October. The main problem now is that Shaheen has 49% in 3 of the polls and 48% in two others. Also there are only 3-4% in the undecided column which Brown would have to win almost all of them to prevail with Shaheen's 2-3 point lead.

So the only question to be answered is how firm is that 48/49% saying they will vote for ShaHeen and can Brown change their minds? New Hampshire is looking close. But Brown faces real long odds when considering only a couple of percent are still left in the undecided column.
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Understood, though the recent changes suggest more may be coming, how many of those polls have been taken since her comments in the op? The next 10 days will be interesting to watch.
 
US Conservative said:
Understood, though the recent changes suggest more may be coming, how many of those polls have been taken since her comments in the op? The next 10 days will be interesting to watch.
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My guess would be none although CNN's poll was from 18-21 and ARG from 19-22, both were released today so it takes a few days to conduct a poll, at least another day to compile it and usually another day to release it. So most polls are 2-3 days old at least when they are released.
 
US Conservative said:
Understood, though the recent changes suggest more may be coming, how many of those polls have been taken since her comments in the op? The next 10 days will be interesting to watch.
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I was thinking while I munch on some popcorn. Even polls which are published on the 3rd and 4th of November, the day before and on election will be two-three days old. What I am saying even the polls released to today are two, three, four days old. The CNN poll on New Hampshire is a prime example, it covers the period 18-21 Oct, it's results were released on 24 Oct. So that poll tells us approximately where things stood on 21 Oct, not on the 22nd, 23rd or today.

A slim lead of 3 points that Shaheen had on the 21st may have evaporated by today, the 24th. But all we have to go on is how things stood three days ago.
 
Perotista said:
I was thinking while I munch on some popcorn. Even polls which are published on the 3rd and 4th of November, the day before and on election will be two-three days old. What I am saying even the polls released to today are two, three, four days old. The CNN poll on New Hampshire is a prime example, it covers the period 18-21 Oct, it's results were released on 24 Oct. So that poll tells us approximately where things stood on 21 Oct, not on the 22nd, 23rd or today.

A slim lead of 3 points that Shaheen had on the 21st may have evaporated by today, the 24th. But all we have to go on is how things stood three days ago.
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True, but the trend of her losing her lead was already established, I doubt this helped. No doubt we can find out in a few days.
 
US Conservative said:
True, but the trend of her losing her lead was already established, I doubt this helped. No doubt we can find out in a few days.
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I'll keep an eye on it. Heck I have been keeping an eye on all the senate races. My home state of Georgia is becoming more interesting as each day passes. RCP has placed Georgia into the Democratic column. Sabato and 538 have place Georgia into the runoff category and the rest have Georgia has a tossup.
 
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