If Clinton is nominated, should debates with the GOP be limited to Saturday nites?

[Armstead]

Just wonderin'.

[BootinUp]

1. They should be 11 hours long. nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. That's a good one

[JoePhilly]

18. Mic Drop.

[whatchamacallit]

21. Yes, a deflection deserves a mic drop

in bizarro world.

[JoePhilly]

24. She'd wipe the floor with any GOP candidate ...

... any day of the week, any time of day, for any duration.

[whatchamacallit]

25. Hopefully people other than her sycophants

will be able to bring themselves to vote for her. I have my doubts.

[redstateblues]

34. stupid insulting post,

calling those of us who support Hillary names. Hope the rest of your day is better.

[AgingAmerican]

54. It's true

There is no excitement around her, outside the sycophant bubble.

[JoePhilly]

40. RWers pretending to be liberals won't vote for her, that's for sure.

I have absolutely no doubts about that.

[whatchamacallit]

41. A lot of true liberals won't either

Many of them have problems with elitist corporate hawks. RWers should be quite comfortable with her IMO.

[JoePhilly]

43. Real liberals understand how dangerous the GOP is.

And they won't sit idle and allow them to take control.

[whatchamacallit]

44. Uh huh...

Take control of what, economic or foreign policy? They've had control of those since Reagan. Save your simplistic fearmongering for simpletons.

[JoePhilly]

46. Look, I get it ...

... you think you are in some way special, and that you get to speak for all the "true liberals". You don't.

And comments like the one you made above remind me why I take almost nothing you say very seriously.

[whatchamacallit]

48. You started the

"This is what ________ would do" nonsense. News flash: you don't speak for them either.

[JoePhilly]

49. Actually, you called ...

... Hillary supporters "sycophants" ... which immediately tells me to not take you seriously.

A point which gets confirmed with just about every post.

[whatchamacallit]

50. Haha

Not appreciated by JoePhilly... whatever will I do?!?

[JoePhilly]

51. We both know what you'll do.

[AgingAmerican]

52. Nor do they adopt their policies

and re-label them as 'moderate' whatever the fuck that means.

[notadmblnd]

53. uh.. did you miss the midterms in 2010?

real liberals understood how dangerous the the gop and their bagger friends are then too, yet.....


... someones sat idle and allowed them to take control of congress.

I wouldn't be so sure they won't sit idle this time either if I were you. Can you say President Trump?

[JoePhilly]

55. The GOP can't get to 270.

Trump is a clown who will never be President.

And if liberals stay home in 2016, then they will deserve the Theocracy that a GOP President would create.

[AgingAmerican]

56. They have done it five times since 1980

Trump won't be the nominee.

If Hillary loses the general it will be DWS/Hillary and her supporters faults.

[notadmblnd]

58. And if conservative Dems nominate HRC, we'll have another Republican President

and they will control all 3 branches of government. It won't matter if liberal Dems stay home or not republicans will come out in droves to vote against her.

[CoffeeCat]

59. She's not getting any Republican votes...

...and half of our party can't stand her. Turnout among Democrats will be low simply because we won't have the enthusiasm for her, that we had for Obama.

It's doing to be a bloodbath and we would lose if Hillary was our nominee.

It's going to be either Rubio or Trump and and they would beat her.

[upaloopa]

32. What's with the word deflection lately?

Everytime we get in a good one it's called a deflection.

Seems to me the OP is kind of a snark piece

[JoePhilly]

42. I'm noticing that some of these folks ...

... lack a sense of humor.

But I guess being perpetually disgruntled will do that to a person.

[Armstead]

60. No the Op was just wondering about consistency

If the people who think debates don't really matter, and it's fine to limit and place them in TV ratings dead zones, will feel the same about the GE debates with the GOP.

Okay, maybe a little snarky, but there is an honest question there.

[Nitram]

20. Yes!

[onecaliberal]

2. Will they limit number of debates? Will dems throw a fit about it?

[Autumn]

4. We shouldn't even bother with debates against the republicans.

Young and old people will just go out to dinner early on a Saturday and after a few minutes of Trump and those other guys they will vote for whatever democrat there is.

[ibegurpard]

5. Of course!

After all if people REALLY want to watch them they can always catch them on YouTube or something...
Or so I'm being told.

[artislife]

7. Yup nt

[Thinkingabout]

6. It does not matter to me when the debates are held, as said before only old people watch in real

time, I am old but I still record. I work on Saturday nights, I record, I can hear as much on recorded shows as I can hear on real time. It does not matter to me if the debates are held at the same time as the Super bowl, I will still record and view at my convenience. In fact if there was less viewing of last Saturday's debate it was better for your candidate, his foreign affairs experience really showed, it would have been best for less people to see.

[Fawke Em]

35. Funny - those Bernie debate watching parties didn't have a lot of old

people watching them in real time.

[Thinkingabout]

57. How many of this group does not have the ability to record or

Search for the transcript or YouTube for the debates if desired. This saying access to the debates because they were on whatever date and time is silly.

[1StrongBlackMan]

8. I wouldn't mind it, at all ...

Week night airings, means I will likely miss some of the debate because of work ... But, then, I just go to the internet and see what I missed.

[sufrommich]

9. I don't think the time or date really matters

in this internet age. I think some cling to this argument to explain away the Sanders campaign not being as popular as they imagined he'd be.

[MaggieD]

10. Couldn't care less if they are or aren't

And I've got no idea why it should matter which night of the week they are held. If people care they will watch, or record, or get them online.

[lunamagica]

11. Why not? If people want to watch, they will. If they don't they won't, regardless of when it is

aired.

This is the most ridiculous thing to whine about.

[SwampG8r]

12. OT but

The way you spelled watch is how my wife's dad always actually pronounced it.
Took me back and made me smile.

[sufrommich]

13. My dad pronounced "wash" like that. nt

[SwampG8r]

14. I have heard that one too

[lunamagica]

19. Oooops... fixed it

[mmonk]

15. Nah. The conversations they are trying to avoid won't happen in the general election.

[99th_Monkey]

16. Preferably on Holidays at same time as big sports events -nt-

[WI_DEM]

17. Sure. And I also support Saturday as election day.

[moobu2]

22. "IF"? lol

I seriously doubt more debates in prime time would have helped Bernie Sanders, hell, DWS might have been doing Bernie a favor since he did so badly in the others.

[daleanime]

28. Right, sure, tell me again....

why I should take your opinion seriously? Have a lovely day.

[PowerToThePeople]

23. If she is the nominee, I won't care.

At least there are still downticket offices and measures to vote on.

[Fawke Em]

37. Same here.

[daleanime]

26. The 4th of July would be appropriate.....

and remember, only a few are needed.


Just in case

[NCTraveler]

27. Whatever is in our power to fuck republicans. nt.

[Historic NY]

29. I downloaded my cable tv app to the my phone...

most cable companies have them for free I can stream it live anywhere.

[MoonRiver]

30. Won't amount to a hill of beans for me, what night they choose. n/t

[AgingAmerican]

31. DWS/Hillary believe she can win on name recognition alone

Hence no positions on issues and almost no exposure for the Democratic brand.

[olddots]

33. what do we do about the medium being the message ?

The stats on key veiwing times are ancient history .

[upaloopa]

36. If the debates start at 8:00 Eastern time it is 5:00

here on the West Coast. People are driving home at that time on week days. If they don't listen on the radio they miss about half the debate.

[Truprogressive85]

38. Since DWS wants limited debates

its should be 1 debate on a Sunday night at 5 am right after those infomercials

[restorefreedom]

39. of course not

even though such a schedule would benefit hillary, it is the wrong thing to try and keep the public uninformed.

[nc4bo]

45. Sure! Everyone's home on the weekends. nt

[99Forever]

47. Debates?

We don't need no stinkin' debates!