Full Debate: Elizabeth Warren vs Scott Brown - Boston Herald / UMass Lowell

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10. She needs to take control of the dialog

Most of the time she went along for the ride. It would go... Scott Brown says something... She rebuts it. He says something else, she rebuts that...

This is not a winning strategy. She needs to set the dialog. Question and answer can be tricky for this, but what she needs to do is hit him hard. She did this on birth control. He did it to himself on SJC justices. The more time she spends rebutting him the less time she spends controlling dialog and pushing him on his record.

She NEEDS to be more assertive. Not in tone, that's a common mistake. But in topics. She needs to press beyond simply rebutting Brown more often and get him reeling. He is not good on issues he doesn't have polished answers for. He is not good when pressed. He becomes a stuttering, backpedaling mess. That is the Scott Brown that she needs to coax out in the next debate.

Control the dialog, keep him backpedaling, and she will win the debate and the election. I'm sorry to say that for a lot of the debate she seemed like his counterpoint and not an equal. Regardless of if the moderator had anything to do with that, she needs to push through it.