A real and thoughtful human being showed up tonight in Kerry Healey’s skin – a refreshing change. If this woman had shown up a month ago she might have had a chance in this election.
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…then her evil twin came back. I’ve heard that Kerry Healey “gets it” when it comes to the social problems as the root cause of crime. But at the end of the day, she has always let (conservative) ideology prevail over her training.
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But youre right, if her first 20 minutes was her entire campaign, she’d only be down by 7 or 8.
I agree that Healey was at the top of her game for the first 20 minutes or so, but she was clearly exasperated with a lot of the reparte, and not as quick on her feet. Her performance got worse, and the familiar persona came through. The frustration showed through in her body language and facial expressions. She did not come across as a likeable person for most of the debate and for the closing, though she had a lot of substance and was clearly well-prepared.
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She asked Deval a trick question about his vote on the income tax rollback in 2000, given reports that he skipped that election. That was sneaky. She came across as a smart aleck at times. Deval had her on the defensive on the Big Dig for an extended exchange, and he clearly got the better of her. But the Globe feedback poll as of now has Healey just a few points behind Deval in terms of who respondees think won the debate. She benefits from low expectations, and she got attention for her line about the state house buzz cheering for Patrick this week because they think he will rubber stamp spending.
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Still this debate doesn’t appreciably change the dynamic. Perceptions are fixed at this point, and people see what they expect to see.
…trying to get his attention to rebut all the meanies that were saying bad things about her…that was priceless!
while Keller was trying to throw the debate to Muffy?
kind of revert back to form as the evening wore on and I also thought the “gotcha” questions were too smart-aleky