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Scoobes said:

bazmeistergen said:
Cameron started well, but was evasive when pressed.

He also claimed to have answered Clegg on the 80% point, but had evaded it.

It is interesting how people basically think the person that 'won' is who they favour in the first place. Of course a few of you on hear think Cameron won, despite the clear weaknesses he had.

Personally, I thought it was pretty poor from Cameron, though he had some strong moments. Clegg, was occasionally by-passed, but had some strong moments (possibly the best speech at the end) and Brown, too, had good moments, but was very negative at the end in terms of the fear message.

They are all hypocrites, however. And that annoys me.

The bolded is very true, and I think these debates have made that abundantly clear. That and the fact that Brown really is an idiot.

Clegg seemed a bit too evasive at times and his debating style has become a bit too well-known now. Even I'm noticing the tactics he's employing and he repeated the same things for each debate; personalising each question given and answering the questioner directly whilst playing the whole "We haven't been in power for years" card a bit too much.

Cameron's improved over the 3 debates but could have and should have answered some of the questions better, especially when both Brown and Clegg put questions to him on the economy and Tory policies.

Brown seemed desperately negative and basically said, "I suck, but these 2 suck more!", and kept asking the same questions... which the other 2 had already answered. Anyone notice the nervous lip quivers in the middle?

And all 3 outright lied about there opponents policies.

Now who do I vote for?

Politicians lying? Surely, you jest!

A politician standing for election has two jobs:

1) Make his party look good

2) Make the other parties look bad.

Being a little dishonest is normal.

Vote for the one whose policies you agree with most. Ignore their speaking style, confidence, quality of dress and honesty about opponent's policies, because at the end of the day, when you vote, you are saying "I want this person to run the country for 4-5 years".