Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Locked thread
Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
Who are the debate moderators?

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/688805749984768000

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Aliquid posted:

Joe, since this is obviously the opposite of what's happening, do you think it's a good strategy to fly under the radar and let the focus be on the GOP eating itself?

No. Both the DNC and RNC decided that there were too many debates in 2008/2012 and took steps to limit them this time.

Both are regretting it. Debates don't weaken front-runners, like the parties thought, they make it clear why they are frontrunners.

Also, having a network broadcast a 2-3 hour commercial for your party free of charge doesn't hurt.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
Killer Mike will be working the spin room tonight for Bernie.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
Jim Webb just retweeted this, so he's apparently still alive.

https://twitter.com/WebbNation2016/status/688745601312358400

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/688892300928274432

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Turnquiet posted:

So did DWS arbitrarily include O'Malley though he polls in like the sub 1%? I have been unplugged from how the DNC has been trying to bury Bernie so I don't know the latest scuttlebutt.

He qualified under the rules, which just required him getting 5% in a poll, which he did in a couple Iowa polls.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Dahbadu posted:

The debate stream is kinda cutting out. Anyone have an alternative streaming site?

These are usually in the OP, so check there.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
:lol: They interrupt Andrea to say Hillary is entering, but you can't see her. Meanwhile, Martin is walking right past the camera and Andrea has to stop and point at him.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
What's the over/under on whether Hillary will be late back to stage after a break?

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

blue squares posted:

Is this the very first debate on network television? Its nice to not have to watch a delayed internet stream

No, they've done them on ABC and CBS too. That's part of the reason they've been on the weekend. The networks aren't giving up prime time for this.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
Brian Williams remembers moderating this debate.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
https://twitter.com/dbernstein/status/688904568718098432

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

blue squares posted:

What is Bernie's pin? a veteran thing?

Senator pin.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/688905170080509952

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Petey posted:

what did i miss

Nothing.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
Pro tip to moderators: maybe don't ask questions they can just answer with their stump speech.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
That's more than three things, Hillary.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Joementum posted:

That's more than three things, Hillary.

And yet none of them were about foreign policy. An odd omission from her.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
Bernie making strawmen illegal is REALLY BAD news for D&D.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Logikv9 posted:

VT is mostly white???

Does 95% count as "mostly"?

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Montasque posted:

Every debate we get the same gun questions. Every single time.

A liability of political experience. Much easier for Trump, who's never had to cast a vote in his life.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
I wonder if people know that Senators always say "my good friend" sarcastically.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/688908702280060929

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Winkie01 posted:

When are the commercial breaks? I got to take a tinkle

Martin O'Malley is talking. What more do you need?

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/688908802087768065

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

blue squares posted:

oh no, a youtuber asked the best question yet, waaaaaahhh

One also asked the best question in the ABC debate.

Almost as if the questions actual people want answered are better than the gotchas journalists try to concoct.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
https://twitter.com/DaveAHopkins/status/688909484354310144

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

disjoe posted:

Did people in there laugh at him

I would laugh

Hillary audibly laughed at him.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
dun dun dun dun

dun dun dun

dun dun dun dun

dun dun dun

*chime*

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/688910972757667840

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
Actually a good answer from Hillary. Once again, she's been poorly served by her surrogates.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
Great job by both Hillary and Bernie in that exchange, articulating a different approach in the party.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
Very good question from Andrea about the Vermont plan and very weak answer from Bernie.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Tigntink posted:

The public option was never really in front of congress tho? Isn't that disingenuous as poo poo for her to say?

The public option passed in the House.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Petey posted:

hillary has already won the debate, & probably the presidency

o'malley will get a cabinet role, and she'll probably pick castro or something for VP

wonder what they do w/ bernie

Bernie will continue to be the Senator from Vermont and ranking member / chairman of the budget committee.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
Martin O'Malley trying so hard to get a chance to talk :3:

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

disjoe posted:

who the gently caress is vincent shaheen

The last Democratic candidate for Governor of South Carolina. Spoiler: he did not win.

Also, he's endorsed O'Malley.

  • Locked thread