I have to say that while the conventional wisdom is that there was a DNC plot to keep the debates down in number and to show them when no one much is watching, Hillary is the one who'd be the true winner with more debates as she is a very good debater.
Tonight she was very smart in hugging the President in her debate before a South Carolina audience.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/01/hillary-goes-there-when-bernie-wanted.html
It's clear that she is the candidate to protect, consolidate, and build on, the President's legacy as former Obama Attorney General, Eric Holder, tells us.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/17/eric-holder-hillary-clinton-is-the-best-candidate-to-protect-the-obama-legacy/
I think Bernie did fine tonight, but Hillary was, once again, the best.
"Hillary Clinton Won Sunday Night’s Debate."
"With a strong defense of President Obama, she got the better of Bernie Sanders. "
"Hillary Clinton’s superb debate performance on Sunday raised an unsettling question: If she can be this consistently good on a debate stage, why can’t she replicate that impressiveness on the campaign trail or in interviews? Clinton was once again in superior form Sunday night in South Carolina, besting Sen. Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley in the last Democratic debate before the Iowa caucus."
"Clinton’s debating performance is formidable because it combines her intelligence with a sincerity and level of conviction that often seem absent in other forums. When she opened the debate speaking of Martin Luther King Jr.’s role fighting for increased wages, she used his career as a subtle metaphor for what she is pitching: principled leadership with a strong practical bent. That mixture, along with her strength in close-quarter combat and an ability to wrap herself in President Obama’s record—something that played well to the Charleston crowd in the auditorium—was what won her this debate.
"Clinton had several strong moments Sunday night. “Ninety people a day die from gun violence in this country,” she noted, before going on to attack Sanders’ record on the Second Amendment, methodically reciting a series of his Congressional votes. For some reason Sanders still struggles when pressed on his gun rights votes; he called Clinton “disingenuous” and said that guns “should not be a political issue.” Sanders has run an impressive race and is challenging Clinton in both Iowa and New Hampshire, but Clinton’s ability to bring him to earth and seem like just another politician—his weird, Trump-like quoting of polls tonight didn’t help—is remarkable. (The moderators helped her tonight by making it appear as if Sanders had changed or updated a number of his positions.)"
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/01/hillary_clinton_bests_bernie_sanders_in_democratic_debate_in_charleston.html
I don't agree she doesn't do well in interviews and on the campaign trail-chalk this up to the Beltway's reluctance to give her underserved praise.
"The same dynamic occurred when the subject turned to health care. Clinton’s attack on Sanders’ support for a single-payer system is, er, “disingenuous” (as Jim Newell pointed out in Slate last week). But the way she attacked Sanders on the issue tonight was effective: She essentially claimed that Sanders’s plan would cause a huge amount of disruption in Obamacare, and thus reopen the battle that has barely ended over the president’s signature program. Sanders needs to figure out a way to answer this criticism, but he certainly didn’t do so tonight."
Yes, she did a great job on health care as well. I also agree with her substantive point-the best way to universal health care is by building on ACA which has faced a big enough political fight.
Bernie continues to have no real answer to how he can somehow foist a single payer out of his head like Apollo without the votes in Congress.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/01/bernies-explains-vermonts-single-payer.html
"But the larger point is that the Clinton team’s hesitancy—or anxiety—about the debates shows just how misguided it has been. By “playing it safe,” they not only allowed a huge opening for Sanders, but also eschewed the opportunity to exhibit the candidate in the one forum were she doesn’t seem like a politician who plays it safe. The best hope for the Clinton campaign is that she wins at least one of the first two states, and then trounces Sanders in South Carolina, effectively wrapping up the nomination and preparing to face Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz or Trump. Unfortunately, she’ll have to wait until after the summer to debate one of them."
Hillary based on what Nate Silver and friends say, should at least take Iowa-they may even take NH too; that is by no means impossible. Indeed, according to their polls plus model, she has a 57 percent chance to win the Granite State as well.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/nbc-democratic-debate-presidential-election-2016/
Tonight she was very smart in hugging the President in her debate before a South Carolina audience.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/01/hillary-goes-there-when-bernie-wanted.html
It's clear that she is the candidate to protect, consolidate, and build on, the President's legacy as former Obama Attorney General, Eric Holder, tells us.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/17/eric-holder-hillary-clinton-is-the-best-candidate-to-protect-the-obama-legacy/
I think Bernie did fine tonight, but Hillary was, once again, the best.
"Hillary Clinton Won Sunday Night’s Debate."
"With a strong defense of President Obama, she got the better of Bernie Sanders. "
"Hillary Clinton’s superb debate performance on Sunday raised an unsettling question: If she can be this consistently good on a debate stage, why can’t she replicate that impressiveness on the campaign trail or in interviews? Clinton was once again in superior form Sunday night in South Carolina, besting Sen. Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley in the last Democratic debate before the Iowa caucus."
"Clinton’s debating performance is formidable because it combines her intelligence with a sincerity and level of conviction that often seem absent in other forums. When she opened the debate speaking of Martin Luther King Jr.’s role fighting for increased wages, she used his career as a subtle metaphor for what she is pitching: principled leadership with a strong practical bent. That mixture, along with her strength in close-quarter combat and an ability to wrap herself in President Obama’s record—something that played well to the Charleston crowd in the auditorium—was what won her this debate.
"Clinton had several strong moments Sunday night. “Ninety people a day die from gun violence in this country,” she noted, before going on to attack Sanders’ record on the Second Amendment, methodically reciting a series of his Congressional votes. For some reason Sanders still struggles when pressed on his gun rights votes; he called Clinton “disingenuous” and said that guns “should not be a political issue.” Sanders has run an impressive race and is challenging Clinton in both Iowa and New Hampshire, but Clinton’s ability to bring him to earth and seem like just another politician—his weird, Trump-like quoting of polls tonight didn’t help—is remarkable. (The moderators helped her tonight by making it appear as if Sanders had changed or updated a number of his positions.)"
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/01/hillary_clinton_bests_bernie_sanders_in_democratic_debate_in_charleston.html
I don't agree she doesn't do well in interviews and on the campaign trail-chalk this up to the Beltway's reluctance to give her underserved praise.
"The same dynamic occurred when the subject turned to health care. Clinton’s attack on Sanders’ support for a single-payer system is, er, “disingenuous” (as Jim Newell pointed out in Slate last week). But the way she attacked Sanders on the issue tonight was effective: She essentially claimed that Sanders’s plan would cause a huge amount of disruption in Obamacare, and thus reopen the battle that has barely ended over the president’s signature program. Sanders needs to figure out a way to answer this criticism, but he certainly didn’t do so tonight."
Yes, she did a great job on health care as well. I also agree with her substantive point-the best way to universal health care is by building on ACA which has faced a big enough political fight.
Bernie continues to have no real answer to how he can somehow foist a single payer out of his head like Apollo without the votes in Congress.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/01/bernies-explains-vermonts-single-payer.html
"But the larger point is that the Clinton team’s hesitancy—or anxiety—about the debates shows just how misguided it has been. By “playing it safe,” they not only allowed a huge opening for Sanders, but also eschewed the opportunity to exhibit the candidate in the one forum were she doesn’t seem like a politician who plays it safe. The best hope for the Clinton campaign is that she wins at least one of the first two states, and then trounces Sanders in South Carolina, effectively wrapping up the nomination and preparing to face Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz or Trump. Unfortunately, she’ll have to wait until after the summer to debate one of them."
Hillary based on what Nate Silver and friends say, should at least take Iowa-they may even take NH too; that is by no means impossible. Indeed, according to their polls plus model, she has a 57 percent chance to win the Granite State as well.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/nbc-democratic-debate-presidential-election-2016/
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