She has delivered multiple answers explaining her use of a private email server as secretary of state; she is practicing one clear, crisp answer for the debate.
So I called up Jennifer Day, the report's coauthor, and asked a simple question: "Is the payoff from education or from the ability level that is correlated with the amount of education?" Crisp answer: "Obviously, we can't decipher that".
He conducted a short news conference, with polite, crisp answers.
With nods to time spent in the White House Situation Room and crisp answers about five-point plans, she exuded a sense of command that her rivals onstage often seemed to lack.
He also gave what were probably the most crisp answers -- succinct and fairly straight to the point.
"It may be," she said, "that there was a strategic decision not to give a crisp and clear answer".
He has this warm, almost Caribbean lilt to his voice, and every time I asked a question, he leaned back, listened thoughtfully and then delivered a crisp and what seemed genuine answer.
Because all too often, his short answers; long pauses; problems coming up with words; problems with recall (in one case, confusing a key date by a decade); and his stumbling, then stating something more vaguely often occurred in an instance where a crisp, specific and more informative answer would easily have neutralize the question.
