Debate — Jeffrey A. Setaro

Video: Newt Gingrich BLASTS Chris Wallace for his “Gotcha” Questions at Iowa Debate

August 11, 2011 By Jeff Leave a Comment

This is just pure golden goodness: Ouch, I love it! It’s about time Republican candidates started calling the sound bite media on the carpet for wasting everyone’s with time trivial, tabloid gotcha questions instead of asking substantial policy questions. Newt was absolutely right to go after Chris Wallace the way he did tonight… and judging by [...]

Filed Under: Media, Politics Tagged With: 2012 Elections, Chris Wallace, Debate, Iowa, Newt Gingrich, Republicans

Poll Question: Who Won The Final Presidential Debate?

October 15, 2008 By Jeff 5 Comments

Overall I thought this was John McCain’s best debate. Unfortunately, I don’t think it was a game changer. In fact I think the plumber, Joe Wurzelbacher, was the only real winner. A couple of quick points: 1) The Secret Service says they have yet to find anyone who can backup that Scranton ‘Kill Him’ Report. [...]

Filed Under: Politics, Polls Tagged With: 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Debate, Economy, Education, Health Care, John McCain, Taxes

Poll Question: Who Won The Second Pesidential Debate?

October 7, 2008 By Jeff 1 Comment

I’m calling it a draw… I though Sen. McCain did much better on the economy and health care than he did in the first debate. He slammed Sen. Obama on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and challenged the assumption that is was deregulation caused the financial crisis. He completely lost me with mortgage buy up [...]

Filed Under: Politics, Polls Tagged With: 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Debate, John McCain

70 Million Viewers – Wow

October 3, 2008 By Jeff Leave a Comment

Ok so it was really only 69,989,000 but last nights Vice Presidential debate was the most watched ever. From the the Live Feed: Thursday’s highly anticipated face-off between Alaska governor Sarah Palin and Delaware senator Joe Biden was the most-watched vp debate of all time. Last night’s event was seen by nearly 70 million viewers, [...]

Filed Under: Media, Politics Tagged With: Debate, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin

Poll Question: Who Won The First Debate

September 26, 2008 By Jeff Leave a Comment

Overall I thought McCain won on points… Although it was closer than it should have been. McCain clearly won on foreign policy but on the economy it was at best a draw. McCain needs to drop the populist rhetoric and stand up for conservative economic principles… In particular he needs to hit Obama on his [...]