Nielsen says 15.8 million watched Democratic debate

The Times’ main news story called it “a dominant performance”.

After, Cooper asked Clinton, “Secretary Clinton, do you want to respond?”

It turned out she went after him, but on something else-on the one example of his not being liberal enough. But after laughing, he didn’t explain why she was wrong.

“We intend to play here and play hard and take it seriously”, Finney said.

Even the adverbs in the two reports favored Clinton: “aggressively”, “crisply”, “emphatically”, “energetically”. Bernie Sanders, an independent and self-proclaimed democratic socialist.

But Clinton has a good retort – she was criticized by Obama the same way in 2008, but he turned around and picked her as his secretary of state.

Clinton, meanwhile, already is widely known to the electorate. “He seemed flustered and defensive”.

Majorities of Americans also support government efforts to combat climate change, and they approve of gay marriage, positions backed by Clinton and other Democratic presidential candidates. Clinton smiles and they shake hands, and he gets huge applause and a standing ovation.

Emerging from their first presidential debate, Clinton signaled that she would make gun laws a key distinction with Sanders, who has voted against a few gun control measures as a senator representing rural Vermont. “He didn’t, and the Democratic race for the White House remains Hillary Clinton’s to lose”. While his competition gave fun predictable answers such as Republicans and the NRA, Webb focused on his military experience, saying the enemy he’s most proud of making was “enemy soldier that threw the grenade that wounded me, but he’s not around right now to talk to”. One was the Denmark exchange. Which got us thinking: What if, instead of each state hosting primaries, we broke up primary voting by football conference? That gave an opening to Clinton to deliver a zinger: “But we are not Denmark”.

Clinton said Georgia is important to her campaign, and that she would like to see Democrats do better again.

There is a great freedom in electoral politics-if not likely victory-for someone running insurgently on unbridled passion for what he fervently believes.

Spun another way, Clinton did little more than cleverly dodge the question.

Public awareness that Bernie Sanders is sick of hearing about Clinton’s emails-as are a lot of people, I’d wager-was widely enhanced.

And Chafee has a damaging comment when pressed as to why he voted against banking regulations – says he had just gotten to the Senate after being appointed after his dad’s death and didn’t understand it. Not helping his case at all. Politicians don’t use minor oaths like that very often. There’d be a Big 10 day, an ACC day, maybe even a MAC day. In an interview with CNN, he pushed back against the notion that his campaign would be short-lived, saying, “I’m in it for as long as I can continue to raise these issues”.

I realize that much of what I have written here makes me sound like a dispirited Sandersista.

Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., came in second with a net score of +30, as 33 percent though he did the best job and just 3 percent though he did the worst job.

The two leading candidates were joined by former Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee, former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley and former U.S. Senator James Webb of Virginia in the first of six scheduled debates in the race to be the party’s nominee in the November 2016 presidential election.

The five Democrats didn’t mention farms, coal, agriculture, small towns (or small anything, except business), roads (how can you have a group of Democrats who never mention roads?), religion, health and safety, fracking, beef, dairy, monopoly, land or religion. Certainly, columnists like Bruni can offer that judgment – that’s what they’re paid to do.

After the debate, however, much of the USA media – The New York Times, The New Yorker, CNN, Politico, Slate, Vox, and other outlets -claimed it was a victory for former first lady Hillary Clinton.