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Originally Posted by killer_carlson
First debate is tonight. As much as I think the debate will produce something substantive, I suspect that the spin doctors have already written their takeaways. My predictions:
1) Mere seconds after the debate the NDP's and Conservative's paid tweeters er, I mean party faithful dump all over the internet by hitting "send" or "submit" with pre-written tweets and comments about how terrible Trudeau performed.
2) Trudeau pulls a Raj Sherman and goes out of his way to work a large number of cliches into his responses.
3) CBC and the Globe and Mail capture and report said Trudeau cliches as his making stellar points and standing his ground, regardless of proper context.
4) Mulclair tries to engage Harper substantively, with Harper avoiding the fight, for now.
5) Harper hammers Elizabeth May during an exchange.
6) Elizabeth May plays nice with the NDP and talks coalition
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I would expect that Mulcair is going to use this opportunity to go after Trudeau, make him look terrible and to start leaching votes and seats away from the Liberals.
I would expect that Harper will go hard after Trudeau because he's a big meany, he'll also want to go after the die in the woods Liberals that don't want to see Mulcair as Prime Minister and will hold their noses and vote Conservative.
Trudeau will have to rise way above what he's done so far and stop what is essential the bleeding, he'll have to be prepared, and be able to defend himself.
The main event bro down between Harper and Mulcair won't materialize this week, this will be about establishing this election as a two party race. I would expect that Harper will probe Mulcair a bit to see if he can make angry Tom come out.
I have no clue why May is even invited into these debates, she has in the previous lap dogged to the NDP, been shrill and pretty much worthless, she's not someone that's even in the running to be the leader of this country, and thus pretty much a useless distraction.
The first leader that stands up grabs her chair and pushes her off screen during one of her rants gets my vote.