3rd Presidential Debate

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(10-23-2020, 03:05 AM)Dill Wrote: There is already a different minimum wage in different states, isn't there? It's 7.25 in PA, but 11.83 in NY, and 8.75 in Delaware and 8.46 in Florida, but 12.00 an hour in CA.

Biden dismissed the "Dem states are a disaster" theme and presented himself as president of the whole country. The virus is affecting red and blue states.
He did not go after the President's children.
He minimized response to the Hunter Biden crap, emphasizing that his tax records were public for the last 22 years. 
Biggest moment was maybe when he corrected Trump's "Coyotes brought them" defense of his and Miller's child separation policy by saying "They came here with their parents." 
I think Biden did confuse Lincoln and Trump at one point. "Lincoln was the most racist president"

Trump did better than the first debate. But still showed that tendency to shift from policy to rumor and gossip. Joe got millions from Moscow?? Big theme inside the Fox bubble, but a nonstarter outside that. And the FBI is not interested either. (That's why the MSM is "ignoring" the story.) 

No one can stop Trump from spreading disinformation about COVID-19. He is not immune, the fatality rate is higher than 1% for young people iand it attacks, and does damage to bodily organs of many survivors, we are not yet turning the corner but poised before another surge, the vaccine will not be ready until the second or third quarter of next year, etc. 

As I mentioned in an earlier email, Trump cannot really explain policy. He makes single assertions like "We have to open the country." But he cannot unfold a policy in stages, laying out cause/effect and consequences. Closest he came was "It came out of China, then it went out into the world."  He can only say people have praised it or it was more successful than anything before and people around the world were surprised; or if its someone else's it was "disastrous."

The children whose parents we now cannot find are "well cared for, very well cared for"? (That funny sound you heard at that moment was millions of mothers wincing.)

The "1994 Crime Bill" doesn't have much force when the issue is raised by the guy who wanted the death penalty for the innocent Central Park Five "predators." 

Same stuff said in front of campaign rallies, which gets roars of approval, but falls dead on the national stage where people gasp in shock instead. Trump looked uncomfortable, stressed, unsure.

I believe that was a well-timed joke.