Hey everyone, welcome to the focus group podcast. I'm Sir Longwell here with my buddy Tim Miller and we are taping a quick little topper over today's episode which is all about the also rans, the other people in the Republican primary, and the focus groups that you're

going to hear from today, that sound was gathered after the first debate, but we are going to do a

little update because we just had the second debate and our assessments of where the race stands

and how people are performing was neither enhanced nor changed other than what Nicky Haley said about all of us getting a little bit

dumber which I think is a good kind of rap for the whole thing but Tim I know you went to the

Beyoncé concert instead of watching the debate but I assume you caught some clips this

morning or something? I've watched the rerun. I woke up, I cuddled up under the covers, and I

just, I watched the rerun and I got to tell you I made the right choice.

Beyonce was much, much better.

I mean this is the focus group podcast.

So I have the humility to say there's a possibility

that we'll all gather together in two weeks

and you know you'll be talking to some

people in Dubuque and they'll be like man that Tim Scott Curtin's comment that really

was it for me I'm a single issue voter on window treatments and I'm giving him a second look now, you know, I guess it's anything as possible.

But boy, the thing that struck me is that none of their strategies changed.

You know, the first debate happened.

Nicky went up two points.

Everyone else stayed flat.

And they went and did the second debate

and they all did the same thing, basically.

I mean, I guess Ron de Santas criticized Donald Trump Donald Trump what like one hour and 59 minutes in to the debate something to that effect you know very

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