My prediction for the debate
I will not be liveblogging this thing, as I've found debate liveblogging to be one of the least interesting species of liveblogging in the entire boring liveblogging kingdom.
That said, here are some predictions. Chris Dodd will continue to make me wish that he wasn't polling at one percent. Joe Biden will continue to make me happy that he's polling at one percent. Bill Richardson will look silly and tell completely unfunny jokes that the audience will laugh at politely nonetheless. Dennis Kucinich will look like a much smaller man than Bill Richardson.
Meanwhile, at the front of the pack, John Edwards will hit Hillary Clinton with a series of right and left crosses (metaphorically? physically? we'll have to wait and see) while Barack Obama, by contrast, will announce his intent to hit Hillary with his own combination of punches at some time in the future...or something like that. Hillary Clinton will respond with a steel-jawed smile, decrying the boorishness of the supposed change-candidates, having lost the fight on point count but won it in the eyes of the blind punditocracy.
Five to one odds. Any takers?
Comments
You actually got it pretty close. Biden had some good comments but didn't come across as much of a candidate. Richardson appears to be running as HRC's VP, at one point defending her from "personal attacks" by the other candidates (Bill apparently doesn't understand the definition of "personal"). Edwards is clearly running as the anti-Hillary and was very effective in continuing to hit her with it. Hillary was fine until the end when she seemed to take 2 positions on a question about drivers licenses for illegal immigrants in NY (Spitzer's proposal). Dodd was a little up and down, effective on energy and not so much on "electability" - Obama was okay but he'll never be entirely comfortable trying to "attack" other candidates - his personality seems to preclude this approach. Kucinich framed several answers with a call to impeach Bush and Cheney.
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