10-05-2016, 01:25 PM
(10-05-2016, 12:42 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(10-05-2016, 12:36 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Pence won on points; Kaine ripped Trump effectively even if he left Pence alone.
Trump is on the top of the Reactionary ticket; Pence is a comparative afterthought. Pence could not defend Trump effectively. Kaine lost the skirmish but set a bigger trap for Trump, showing that some of Trump's positions were too extreme even for Pence (no moderate, by the way) to stomach.
The sense I have is of two campaigns pursuing different voter groups and using different tactics which each might be more appropriate for the voters they are seeking. Each convinced their already convinced. Pence might have roused the emotion of his convinced more effectively. Kaine hammered some critical points to those who believe in fact checking. I suspect they both did what they went in trying to do.
There is no knockout victory here, and besides, vice presidential debates don't affect the outcome of the election most of the time.