2016 Postmortem

portlander23

(2,078 posts) Tue Oct 13, 2015, 11:39 PM Oct 2015

NPR: On The Clock: Clinton Gets The Most Speaking Time At Democratic Debate

NPR ran its stopwatch Tuesday to track which candidate spoke the longest (as we did for the last debate, during which Trump spoke the longest by far).

Bernie Sanders had a slight lead over Hillary Clinton after the first break, but then Clinton moved ahead. Lincoln Chafee trailed for most of the debate — he didn't speak at all between the second and third breaks. Here is the final tally of how much air time each candidate received:

Clinton: 30 min 25 sec

Sanders: 27 min 41 sec

O'Malley: 17 min 08 sec

Webb: 15 min 20 sec

Chafee: 9 min 05 sec

Webb wasn't wrong to complain.

Related:

The candidate breaking through in the Democratic debate? Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders Won the Debate, and Perhaps the Election, When He Defended Hillary Clinton

Bernie Sanders' night: Authenticity wins the Democratic debate

1 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

NPR: On The Clock: Clinton Gets The Most Speaking Time At Democratic Debate (Original Post) portlander23 Oct 2015 OP

Webb deserved to complain, but doing so so many times made him look petty. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Oct 2015 #1

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)

1. Webb deserved to complain, but doing so so many times made him look petty.

Reply to portlander23 (Original post)

Tue Oct 13, 2015, 11:44 PM

Oct 2015

He kinda got screwed over, as did Chafee, and to a lesser extent O'Malley. But I don't think he or Chafee were winning many people over even when they did speak.

Reply to this discussion