克林顿分明是周一晚电视辩论的赢家
评论:好好做功课,长大不吃亏
作者: Ines Pohl
(德国之声中文网)他能做到彬彬有礼吗?特朗普在90分钟的电视辩论中能够按捺住自己的性情,不开口诅咒外国人、妇女以及穆斯林吗?他能够象一名美国总统一样,表现出应有的气质吗?
这些问题数天来在美国占据着克林顿与特朗普电视对决的主要议题。竞争世界上最重要政治职位的公开辩论沦落到这等水平,当然是一场悲剧。然而这些话题正是本次选战的议题,在公众舞台上不是探讨政治观念以及战略路线,而是一些边缘或者极端话题。
用语言烟幕弹掩盖无知
结果呢?还好,他的举止还算过得去,没有破口大骂,也没有过于表现出攻击性,或者侮辱女性以及穆斯林。但是效果并不佳,相反昨晚的辩论恰恰印证了过去多月来特朗普的成功,不过是他以言辞包裹的烟幕弹掩盖了他的无知。他的成功还在于,许多媒体为了赢得观众的注意、提高收视率并由此赚得赢利,紧盯特朗普,哪怕再无关紧要的事也要报道。也许特朗普的高参们打定主意在辩论开场的关键时刻,改变他固有的形象。到目前为止争取传统的共和党选民的支持,尚未能成功,但这一步非常必要,只是高参们的战略在本次电视对决中全盘误判。
特朗普被当众揭短
克林顿则在公众舞台上,亿万观众面前,将她的共和党竞争对手肢解成碎片,克林顿用讽刺、理智、幽默以及优雅的表述证明,只要对方不用谩骂以及恶毒攻击遮掩其表达内容的愚蠢,他便一无所有。不论是外交还是反恐,抑或是国家的治安,即便是经济议题以及税务政策,特朗普都无法自如应对,除了一些充满矛盾、津津乐道的言辞,他的讲话毫无内容。
每一个带着理智和开放心态关注这场电视辩论的人,都会觉得特朗普在这个晚上被彻底打败,此前他的许诺有多响亮,现在他的跌落就有多深。而克林顿则再次证明,她将全力以赴并带着对对方的尊重继续选战。
在一个选民不依照事实和政治理念做出选举决定的世界里,本次电视对决后,人们对特朗普不具备挑起奥巴马继任这副特殊重担的能力,应该一目了然了吧。
只听自己意见的回声?
难道越来越多的人生活在社交网络组成的自我天地里,真的只能听到自己意见的回声? 这场辩论也许会改变这一现象?说特朗普完全没有机会了还为时过早,接下来还会有更多的辩论会以及交锋的舞台,克林顿也会犯下这样那样的错误并在社交网络被大加渲染。
然而可以肯定的是,克林顿是这场电视辩论的赢家,特朗普被打败。那些本无资质、仅靠表像作秀的政治家在聚光灯关闭之后,会感到日子越发地不好打发了。这个晚上,睿智机敏的克林顿,化妆的嘴唇微笑着,成功地将特朗普的实质揭露得体无完肤。
Clinton Victorious in First Two Debate Snap Polls
By Ben Mathis-Lilley
Sept. 27 2016 3:36 AM
Pundits—from the liberal stooges at Slate to cable talking heads to conservatives at the National Review to Republican operatives like Frank Luntz—generally felt on Monday night that Hillary Clinton had a better debate performance than Donald Trump. But who cares what pundits think? Let’s take it to the American people!
Unfortunately, the most meaningful indexes of how the debate changed what the American people think—new polls of likely voters taken entirely after Monday’s debate—won’t be out for several days. But what we do have are two quick polls that cover what debate viewers thought.
- A PPP poll found that viewers thought Clinton had won the debate by a 51-40 margin. Among that group, 40 percent of viewers said the debate had made them more likely to vote for Clinton vs. 35 percent who said it'd made them more likely to vote for Trump.
- A CNN/ORC poll found that 62 percent of viewers thought Clinton won vs. 27 percent who thought Trump did so. That’s the most lopsided result in CNN’s data set, which goes back until 1984, except for Romney smoking Obama 67–25 at their first debate in 2012. Of CNN's respondents, 34 percent said the debate had made them more likely to vote for Clinton while 18 percent said it had made them more likely to vote for Trump.
It's impossible to say with this limited data how many truly undecided voters had their minds changed Monday night, but at the least it’s evidence that HRC didn’t underwhelm the the expectation that she would perform more competently than Trump. She definitely went right out there and whelmed!