In all seriousness, and it's very clear that I'm no fan of Mr. Disingenuous or his policies, but holy cow! The Bern missed a HUGE opportunity to call CNN and Fauxcohantas out right then and there. Why on earth would he let that go? Doesn't make any sense. He clearly heard it and did nothing. Stood idly by. If The Bern was half serious about his candidacy, he would have called them out. He's not serious. Expect him to have a "health issue" fairly soon and bow out. He's gotten enough of his "policies" to be embraced by the other candidates to simply call it a day and figure out which of his 3 homes he wants to stay in tomorrow.
Boring debate, I guess Buttigieg and Klobuchar don’t really want to be president. O, well. Warren has a bad performance, that dust up with Bernie was stupid. There are plenty of intellectually honest people that have doubts the American electorate will vote to make a woman president, not because a woman isn’t capable of being the president but because of sexism. My own wife’s grandmother has expressed the same doubts and she wants a woman president and would vote for a woman president. I’m not a Bernie guy but the way Warren shaped this and the moderator posed it was disingenuous. Bernie will get the bump. Bernie is probably going to win Iowa. Biden didn’t do himself any favors or any harm. Steady as she goes with him. Again, his strength is he is actually a real life democrat, who is right on the issues with the base of the democrat party. Biden will probably come in second in Iowa. The rest is blah.
What did you expect them to do? They both comported themselves well. They were themselves, for better or worse. I'd love to see Buttigieg debate Trump. He's make him cry.
Hillary Clinton won every debate she had with Trump and in the end she lost. These debates are really about setting down a marker for policy or throwing a bomb at an opponent. Otherwise, they’re just commentary on the news. Buttigieg and Klobuchar needed to throw some bombs to shake themselves out of their lanes because right now they’re stuck. And, because they didn’t throw any bombs they will continue to be stuck. Them and Warren really need to do something before Iowa that gets people’s attention before the Iowa caucuses if they want to have any chance at winning the presidency. If either Biden or Bernie win Iowa then it’s a two person race. At least that my analysis. As to Buttigieg debating trump, what’s the point? Trump is just going to say some poll tested lowball nonsense that will satisfy his base, if he debates at all. This whole thing boils down to which democrats can win Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania in the general election. I don’t need to see the dem candidate show mastery of policy and commonsensical thinking. They need to win 3 specific states.
From what I understand, Clinton lost (despite winning the popular vote) because she took a couple of states or so for granted towards the end, and because a fair number of people assumed she would win and therefore did not feel compelled to participate in the vote. That won't likely happen again. Oh, and the Russian interference thing. There may have been a few other reasons as well but they were just rounding error, I would imagine.
I heard some commentary that perhaps the candidates had to be somewhat measured in their disagreements with their opponents since they would not want to alienate the other candidate's base, upon which they may need to rely in future. It makes sense that they should think a move or two in advance. Also, there's the whole being civilized thing; there's already a bomb thrower in the White House.