Most Americans Were Annoyed Following Disastrous Presidential Debate

An online poll taken immediately after the Tuesday debate shows that most Americans were neither amused nor informed during the 90 minute calamity, and instead they walked away from the debate feeling "annoyed." Nearly 70% of viewers said that they felt this way, and if this trend continues, it could easily depress turnout which would ultimately help Donald Trump. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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So in addition to Donald Trump throwing out his extremely racist dog whistle to the proud boys last night, uh, the entire thing from start to finish was an absolute, uh, to kind of self censor here, a little bit, a crap show, and that is putting it about as mild [inaudible] as possible. Jake tamper actually described it as a dumpster fire inside of a train wreck. It was awful, and everybody is pretty much in agreement that this is the worst debate they've ever seen in their lifetime. Um, and the polling that came out immediately following it from people who watched it is, is terrifying, to be honest. Um, according to the CBS, you go of poll that was taken online immediately after, uh, the debate took place. 17% said they were informed by watching it to 19% described himself as pessimistic, 31% entertained and 69% annoyed. They were just annoyed with the whole thing.

And I understand, yes, those numbers add up to over a hundred percent. Uh, you get to choose more than one thing if you felt the need to, but, uh, yeah, 70% annoyed. And I have to say obviously, yes, you know, a lot of us it's our job. We have to watch this crap. And, uh, it really was one of the most bizarre and most annoying debates I've ever watched. My wife, who is very middle of the road does not follow politics at all, actually got up and left. Cause she said she couldn't stand it, not just the arguing, but she actually can't even stand to hear Trump speak because he doesn't go from point a to B. He goes everywhere else and never actually lands at his destination. And she can't stand that. Um, she she's an educator. She, she likes to be able to, you know, when you start talking it's cause you have a point to make.

And if you don't ever make that point, it's obnoxious. She, she also teaches English. So yeah, I could see how that would be very annoying for her. But as far as the rest of the evening goes, what? We had a bunch of insults, uh, personal insults coming from Trump to Biden from Biden to Trump, uh, Biden was clearly not drugged like Donald Trump said he would be, uh, Odyssey. That was a little disappointing. Cause Biden was very subdued kind of sedated look, man. But there were a couple of times Biden got pissed. And the few times he got pissed is when he actually looked in Deering to the public Biden, went into this debate with the better poll number. So he actually had more to lose than Donald Trump did. So if he didn't deliver a knockout, that's okay because Trump didn't either. So I think the net result of this is nothing.

I don't think this moves the needle Biden did not give a horrible performance. And therefore I do not think his numbers are going to go down. I do not think they're going to go up because I don't think anybody. And I'm trying to look at this with the eyes of somebody who who's not a political follower, you know? And, and that's the thing. It gets lost on us sometimes too. And, and, and my folks on Twitter, um, not everybody in fact, most of the country are not avid political news consumers. We are, and we're in this all day, every day. So we look at it one way, but you have to look at it suppose you're an average voter out there. You watch the press conferences sometimes during the COVID-19 panic and you know, are pandemic, excuse me. And, uh, so you tune into the debate.