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COVxy posted...

How is debate prep not prepping on policy?

How is being able to correctly identify the thing that lester holt's bosses are going to tell him to ask you an indication you understand a policy better than someone else?

COVxy posted...

The important questions asked during a debate (of which there are often few) are about policy.

'Important' to whom?? Most voters aren't driven by policy concerns.That's why Warren was primed to attack Bloomberg over personal conduct and not his policies, for example.

COVxy posted...

If you cannot talk about your policy in a fluid and flexible way, I don't have any confidence that you've spent the due diligence thinking about your ideas. In the same way that when an academic gives a talk, and someone asks a blindingly obvious question and the talker flounders, you know that they haven't thought about what they've presented deeply.

Yes and I understand exactly why you feel that way. I'm just saying you've given pretty thin reasons to actually think its true.

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