The Bush-Gore comparison is very apt. If you read the transcripts of those debates, it's obvious that Gore won. Bush didn't know anything. But people thought Bush "won" because he came across as a regular guy. Which of course is ridiculous.
I won't watch the debate live. It's a bit like an upcoming soccer match in which you desperately want your team to win but fear they won't. It's better not to watch. Trump is extremely skilled at articulating what many ordinary people think regarding everything from terrorism to government corruption, whereas Hillary is highly skilled at using carefully nuanced political language that can sometimes sound opaque. I suspect that like Bush, Trump will lose the debate by any normal standards but perhaps a sizeable number of people will think he won it. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <salsunshineiniowa@...> wrote : (snip) There’s really only one way Hillary could lose this debate IMO, and that’s if she pulls a Gore and tried to play down her own massive intelligence and experience in an attempt to make Trump look smarter than he is. Why anyone would do that is of course the big question, which I’m sure still leaves psychologists scratching their heads about Gore and his first debate to this day. Gore wasn't so much trying to make Bush look smarter. Gore had been brutally mocked for being too wonkish and was portrayed as stiff and boring, and he was attempting to counter that image. Hillary actually has a similar problem. She needs to come across as human and charming as well as intelligent and experienced. Not fair, but that's the way it is.