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Post by Logan on Jan 18, 2016 10:07:56 GMT -6
The Biggest Loser From Tonight’s Democratic Debate: The Republican PartyTonight’s democratic debate was perhaps the most anticipated one since the first debate many months ago. Not only is it the last debate before the Iowa Caucus, but tension between the Clinton and Sanders campaigns has reached a new level of intensity over the last several weeks with both candidates taking shots at one another. To add to the intrigue, just about two hours before the start of the debate, Bernie Sanders finally released the details to the cornerstone of his campaign, his “Medicare-for-all” plan. While I’ve hated to see hostilities between Clinton and Sanders intensify, it was inevitable. It’s almost impossible in today’s political world to run a campaign without – at least on some level – going negative against one another. Though it’s still nothing close to the embarrassing behavior we’ve seen on the GOP side of things. As far as the debate itself, this was a tough one for me to read. First I will say, as expected, there were more back and forth exchanges between Clinton and Sanders. I’m not sure I would give either candidate the “nod” as far as “winning” many of these exchanges. Continue reading at www.forwardprogressives.com/democratic-debate-summary-biggest-loser-republican-party/ .
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Post by nobody on Jan 18, 2016 10:27:37 GMT -6
The "hostilities" between Clinton & Sanders were mild and issue-related. As you say, nothing like the GOP "debates."
I wish Republicans and Republican-leaning voters had watched. I suspect that most get their Democratic debate coverage from Fox, Breitbard, New Republic, Blaze, or the other ten thousand conservative sites with their own filters and interpretations.
Matter of cognitive dissonance. What threatens our cherished opinions we avoid or skip over or forget. The dirty secret of conservative politics: to have their own brand of news and to reject all other news as products of liberally-biased media.
Some open-minded Independents and Undecideds will have watched. For everybody else it was preaching to the choir.
Of course I exaggerate some. Kinda like the Bible. Atheists read the Bible closely to use it in arguments with believers. There were conservatives looking for ammo who watched last night.
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Post by nobody on Jan 18, 2016 16:19:16 GMT -6
10 million viewers according to preliminary Nielsen numbers. Compared to 11 million for the most recent GOP debate. Not bad, considering Democrats don't have Trump and the event is not like watching WWE. The build-up for a Bernie-Hillary face-off did the job, as well as curiosity about what would be said about Bill C; what Vince McMahon might call "cheap heat."
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Post by liberal on Jan 18, 2016 21:46:13 GMT -6
I am glad the view Numbers were good for the debate. Hillary is being acused of trying to hide the debate. No reason to. She's a good debater
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Post by Gloria on Jan 18, 2016 23:22:31 GMT -6
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