Why shouldn’t he? What advantage or disadvantage is granted by the name on the building?
Democrats in a building named after a Democrat gain +2 to all rolls, and any Republicans suffer 1 negative level as long as they are within the building.
You’re quite right. Unemplyment, health care, banking regulations, taxation, deficits? No, this race will be decided by the name on the building they debate in.
I’m glad to hear that. She’s in my Celebrity Death Pool list - I’d have felt like a right tool if she was already deceased.
They were willing to agree to his local media request and had lined up Tom Brokaw as the moderator.
I wonder if she knows how much her husband’s incompetence screwed up the country.
I really don’t get it. Compare the two situations:
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[li]Obama debates Romney at a place besides the Reagan library, the next day Nancy Reagan endorses Romney.[/li][li]Obama debates Romney at the Reagan library, the next day Nancy Reagan endorses Romney.[/li][/ol]
I really don’t see how #2 is going to negatively impact Obama more than #1.
Well, then, he will undoubtedly suffer at the hands of the voters.
Did Brown offer to debate somewhere else?
As much as she ever was.
Warren and Brown are currently tied in the polls. http://polltracker.talkingpointsmemo.com/contests/ma-senator-12
I think cowardice is the simplest explanation for Scott Brown’s behavior.
Rachel Maddow - who he once accused as being set up by the Massachusetts Democratic Party to run against him - literally just stated on her TV show that MSNBC was never the broadcast host, so his insisting they be removed as hosts was a little… odd.
There is no percentage in being an adoring Rachel M fan. All it gets you is restraining orders. Trust me on this.
On second thought this was a really ugly thing to think.
Oddly enough, I originally wrote “more or less” before “alive” in my original draft but deleted it as too snippily juvenile nasty.
But yes, I did think it.
Don’t stifle your snark side, let the darkness flow through you, and out the keyboard…
Why on earth would anyone want to debate that lying sack of shit?
To demonstrate to Massachusetts voters what a total bozo and empty suit he is?
It’s gonna be a bit harder for him to play the moderate Republican, now that he’s got a voting record.
And it’s already been said, but Brown could have easily suggested a more neutral forum, if that was the big hangup.
And no, it’s not going to be earthshaking news that Vicki Kennedy supports the Democrat in the race. Even if she makes her endorsement 5 minutes after the debate ends, it’s not going to exactly dominate the news cycle on Boston TV stations.
If he thinks it’s to his advantage not to debate her there, then knowledge or intelligence are just as simple explanations, if not more so. Why do something that is likely to help the other side more than it helps you?