{"id":1645,"date":"2007-04-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/richardsons-performance-didnt-impress-pundits\/"},"modified":"2007-04-27T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T15:00:00","slug":"richardsons-performance-didnt-impress-pundits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/richardsons-performance-didnt-impress-pundits\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson’s performance didn’t impress pundits"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The consensus today generally seems to be that Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s<\/a> performance at Thursday\u2019s Democratic presidential debate was mediocre. <\/p>\n

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MSNBC\u2019s Joe Scarborough<\/a> wrote after the debate that Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> is \u201cunderperforming\u201d and also \u201cfighting his tongue as well as his Nixonian flop sweat.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Blogger Joe Monahan<\/a> called Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s \u201ca pedestrian, but not a damaging performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Santa Fe New Mexican\u2019s Steve Terrell<\/a> wrote that Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> \u201clooked uncomfortable, both when he was answering questions and when the camera caught him in random moments. He was sweating. He never smiled.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Even a Richardson<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> supporter, on the site America for Richardson<\/a>, wrote that the governor \u201cshowed his substance on the issues, but we didn\u2019t see as much of his energetic and confident persona as one might have wished.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe good news is that none of the other candidates really dazzled either,\u201d the Richardson<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> supporter wrote.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe most important thing, in my view, is that many more people got exposed to Bill Richardson, and heard his views,\u201d the supporter concluded. \u201cHe didn\u2019t make any major mistakes and, while he was not his usual charming and likeable self, he showed that he has the experience and knowledge to be a serious candidate. While we may not have gained any significant ground last night, we didn\u2019t lose any either. As BR gains more comfort and confidence in debate settings, I have no doubt that he will begin to shine, as we know he can.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> campaign, on his Web site<\/a>, claimed that the governor\u2019s foreign policy experience \u201cdominated the first Democratic presidential debate. He went further than every other candidate by calling for the removal of all troops this calendar year.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Albuquerque Journal<\/a> did a nice article on Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s performance. But most of the national media outlets included little about Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> in their coverage of the debate, further indicating that his performance didn\u2019t set him apart.<\/p>\n

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To be fair, it also partly indicates the mainstream media\u2019s obsession with the Big Three \u2013 Hillary Clinton<\/a>, Barack Obama<\/a> and John Edwards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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If you missed the debate, you can watch it by clicking here<\/a>. You can also rate the candidates\u2019 performances by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The consensus today generally seems to be that Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s performance at Thursday\u2019s Democratic presidential debate was mediocre. MSNBC\u2019s Joe Scarborough wrote after the debate that Richardson is \u201cunderperforming\u201d and also \u201cfighting his tongue as well as his Nixonian flop sweat.\u201d Blogger Joe Monahan called Richardson\u2019s \u201ca pedestrian, but not a damaging performance.\u201d The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}