Finding & Blogging Tonight’s Debate
Tonight’s Debate is at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and is hosted by CNN and the Nevada Democratic Party. The moderator is CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. The debate will be broadcast to the paying folks on CNN at 5 p.m. PT (8 p.m. ET) while non-paying folks like me might get to see it on C-SPAN in a day or two. Watch it online HERE.
PRE-DEBATE ARTICLES:
CNN
AP via MSNBC: Clinton faces another debate after rough patch
WashingtonPost’s The Trail: Spoiling for a Fight
WP’s The Fix – Wag the Blog Redux: What Should Hillary Do?
NY Times’ The Caucus: Candidates Tested on Courage
Chris Dodd, John Edwards and Mike Gravel were “the only mainstream presidential candidates to answer the specific policy questions that may not have been stamped as ‘safe to talk about’ by a pollster,” said Project Vote Smart president Richard Kimball.
Fox News: Dems Prepare for Showdown at Las Vegas Debate
Big Tent Democrat at Talk Left
THE NOTE: Happening in Vegas
CBS News: Pre-Debate Spin Begins
WP: The Silver State’s Golden Opportunity
DEBATE LIVE-BLOGGING:
CNN Political Ticker
Washington Post’s The Fix (?)
NY Times’ The Caucus
MSNBC First Read
ABC Political Radar
AMERICAblog: Dem Debate Live blog & Open Thread
How did drivers licenses for illegal immigrants become the dominant issue in the Democratic nomination process? This is one of those stupid distractions that the media LOVES….they can’t get enough of this issue.
Holly says:
Bill Richardson might as well declare his candidacy for Senate right now because he’s digging a deep hole in which to bury his VP hopes.
Holly says:
Dennis, Get Out! You don’t belong in the debates or this race.
Holly says:
This bit where the candidates sit in the chairs reminds me of The Dating Game.
POST-DEBATE ANALYSIS:
I’ll leave the analysis to my fellow TMV bloggers!
MISCELLANEOUS: CNN has opened State Political Tickers as follows:
IA Political Ticker
NH Political Ticker
SC Political Ticker
MEANWHILE, ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD, THERE ARE EARTHQUAKES IN CHILE AND A CYCLONE IN BANGLADESH
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“Clinton Sparkles“?
DLS, if that question mark is meant to imply incredulity, I am with you. Clinton Sparkles? Really? They obviously weren’t watching the same debate I was last night. She was good, there’s no denying that. But the minute foreign policy came up, Biden stole the show from all of them. He made the other candidates (with the exception of Richardson and to a lesser extent Dodd) look like high school kids in their first world history class. Unfortunately, the MSM focuses all of their time and attention on Clinton and Obama who are both politically inexperienced lightweights when held up against Biden and Richardson. And the American people lose in the end because unless we all put forth the effort to research the “2nd tier” candidates, we’re ignoring the better qualified, more capable nominees.
The notion of Hillary or Obama being more electable even though they aren’t quite as qualified just makes me want to pull my hair out. It’s the same mistake Democrats made in 2004 when we nominated Kerry as the safe candidate instead of Howard Dean who would have fought tooth and nail against George Bush. If we nominate Richardson or Biden or even Dodd and throw the full support of the Democratic party behind him, we can beat the Republican nominee. We can attract independents and centrist Republicans with a candidate who is experienced, who has common sense, who has shown that he is capable of working with both parties, who can effectively negotiate with foreign powers (including the ones we don’t like). We have got to stop falling into this trap of electable vs. capable when they ARE NOT mutually exclusive.
I was incredulous. She did okay, even had a couple of clever things to say (“Republican playbook” was maybe the best), but sparkles? *gag*
Most people were more sane and just said that she recovered in this debate from previous missteps, notably the problem she had about the driver’s licenses for illegal aliens (Spitzer’s plan).
It’s image — superficiality. And,
If it makes you feel better, the GOP is worse about this, this election: Robertson is endorsing Giuliani.
[rolling eyes]
Does Barack Obama have a psychological advantage that could take him to the White House?
No wonder Kucinich is doing so poorly.
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