 | Who Do You Think Won the Democratic Debate of January 5, 2008? |
Here’s a non-scientific curiosity poll, getting the sense of readers of Irregular Times and to stoke discussion and debate on the Democratic Debate of January 5, 2008:
Who do you think won the Democratic presidential debate of January 5, 2008?
Answer the poll, then justify your answer with a comment! Let the wrangling begin.
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It was last year AND I didn’t watch it.
I didn’t watch tonight’s either, because after the Republican portion, ABC’s video got glitchy - curious, that.
Comment by J. Clifford — 1/5/2008 @ 10:41 pm
Never did get the streaming video to work, the ABC local radio station was supposed to have it live, but only had some libertarian/republican pundit. So went into N.H. to find a bar with a TV, there was baseball on, so everyone was watching that, but one bar with 3 TV’s let us turn the channel on one to ABC as long as we didn’t turn on the sound. Of course we managed to bump the sound switch a tiny bit and saw the last half of the Democrats only.
Funny you don’t have a poll for the Republicans.
Hillary was on topic, managed to use the word “change” three times in one sentence, and got out her new message about “ready” as in experienced to hit the ground running in the job. She had perfect makeup and good camera shots and stayed in ice queen, er, presidential character. She also managed to mention the state of New Hampshire by name (if anyone was not watching the game) in connection with high fuel prices, NH is a poor state with really feels the economic pinch and should get some votes just for that. You can buy votes with a chili feed in this state.
Obama looked tired, a little too intellectual and not enough folksy. But I think that’s who he is.
Edwards subtly took the attention away from Richardson and managed to upstage him by agreeing with him and not looking like he was actually upstaging him. Perhaps they are both running for VP. Edwards had some odd facial expressions every time Hillary and Richardson would speak, also looked deeply sad and blinking too much at one point, or maybe just concentrating on the debate.
Prediction: Hillary and Edwards gain ground at Obama’s expense. Clinton will want Richardson for VP.
The shortest handshake in history was between Hillary and Obama after the debate.
Comment by Anonymous — 1/6/2008 @ 1:47 am
Ay, yi, yi. Fixed.
Comment by Jim — 1/6/2008 @ 6:13 am
Yes, J. Clifford, I had the same problem, and couldn’t get the stream to work after the Republicans were done. But I am watching it here, and I am reading the transcript — because the ideas are what matters, right?
Comment by Jim — 1/6/2008 @ 6:26 am
Edwards addressed my concerns the most often (corporate rape of America and the demise of the “middle class”) but Hillary had good points and Obama was the smoothest. Richardson shouldn’t even have shown up (though he did make a few good points too). If any of these 3 Democratic front runners get elected with one of the others as vp AND THEY KEEP THEIR WORDS (remember Bush promised a bunch of stuff too and promptly turned his back on us regular citizens) then we MIGHT be able to get close to returning our country to a balanced prosperity for all and a more progressive way of running it. Hillary enunciated the environmental, foreign policy and health care problems, but Edwards and Obama made it clear that without jobs, a rein on corporate welfare, and a more balanced tax code we’re going down. i was impressed with all of them. i couldn’t watch the Republicans - they’re kind of thinking IS the problem.
Comment by Tom — 1/6/2008 @ 8:33 am
If Hillary Clinton picks Bill Richardson as Vice President, it will be a sign that she is profoundly out of touch with the present and merely trying to recreate her precious past of residence in the White House. Bill Richardson may have experience, but he’s also demonstrated a profound inability to understand the needs of people outside of policy circles. His performance at the HRC debate was shameful.
Comment by Fruktata — 1/6/2008 @ 10:01 am