A Unique Psychological Assessment of the 2024 Vice Presidential Debate

October 2, 2024

Last evening I first viewed the 2024 Vice Presidential Debate with Senator J. D. Vance (R-OH) and Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) via the simulcast CBS on C-SPAN because I wanted as much an objective, unfiltered presentation/experience as possible.

I then later watched the debate a second time with commentary and analysis by the wonderful duo at VivaBarnesLaw.Locals.com, David Freiheit and Robert Barnes.

Not only is Robert Barnes a master litigator and top-notch attorney but one of the most in depth, articulate, well read and street-smart experienced political analysts in the nation. Whether it involves the institutionalized criminal machine cartels of the Democrats and Republicans or the deep state, he is a true polymath reminiscent of Murray N. Rothbard in his power elite analysis of Realpolitik.

The highlight of the evening was Robert’s brilliant assessment of J. D. Vance’s masterful performance – how he knew his specific target audience of undecided voters, young women (millennials/zoomers), and how he carefully and repeatedly crafted his cognitive and emotive answers/responses directed to the psychological template or temperament of this crucial electoral sub-group. Pure Myers/Briggs or David Keirsey.

Vance’s constant alluding to his humble working-class background of rural Appalachian poverty and deprivation, reared by his staunchly defiant grandmother who sacrificed so that he might succeed, helped cement this emotional image in the minds of the targeted viewing audience.

Walz directed and framed his rote/trite answers to please the Democrats’ party base, donors, previously captured supporters, and the legacy regime media, and not the undecided voters. (Abortion, climate change, gun laws, Trump’s threat to “democracy,” ad nauseum)

Demographic polling data analysis of these remaining undecided voters has demonstrated they are focused on the existential issues of the failing economy and the agonizing inability to live day to day on reduced incomes, the insecure, destructive consequences of the wide-open border and the tsunami of illegals, and the ever-growing threat and futility of never-ending wars overseas and domestic crime fueled by those previously mentioned catastrophic economic factors and the illegal migrant crisis.

Begin at 2:16: 00 for Barnes’ above commentary

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