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The first debate lowered expectations for the POTUS, and scared supporters. He may have lost a few undecides who appear to drift all the way up to Election Day.
This one satisfied expectations, assuaged supporters, and may have swung a few undecideds back.
I am much happier right now than I was after the first debate.
I would say that the match is tied. POTUS needs to focus on the third debate, and while he may not win the debate, he must not blunder, smirk, look tired, or act passive.
I look for the POTUS to continue holding his narrow lead and perhaps expanding it in the next few days, barring catastrophe.
Dick Morris and Carl Rove looked very happy, Terry McAuliffe looked unhappy and they should know.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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