2016 Postmortem

Dem2

(8,168 posts) Thu Oct 15, 2015, 12:41 PM Oct 2015

Did Bernie Sanders win the Democratic debate?

Bernie Sanders scored big on social media, fundraising, and in a post-debate focus group and instapolls. He came in well ahead of Hillary Clinton.

By Linda Feldmann, Staff writer October 15, 2015

Washington — There’s no doubt that Hillary Clinton had a good debate Tuesday night. She was poised, prepared, presidential, even funny. She commanded the room.

Many pundits (including Donald Trump) declared her the winner, creating an echo chamber of affirmation for the Democratic front-runner. Mrs. Clinton won the “after debate,” as the Monitor’s Peter Grier puts it.

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The biggest measure of who “won” Tuesday’s debate won’t truly be known until next week, after major pollsters have had several days to gauge Democratic voter opinion. But in the meantime, there are signs that, in fact, Bernie Sanders scored big Tuesday night.

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http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2015/1015/Did-Bernie-Sanders-win-the-Democratic-debate

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Thu Oct 15, 2015, 01:11 PM

Oct 2015

of the article is indeed this:

The biggest measure of who “won” Tuesday’s debate won’t truly be known until next week, after major pollsters have had several days to gauge Democratic voter opinion. But in the meantime, there are signs that, in fact, Bernie Sanders scored big Tuesday night.

Whatever we may individually believe, the real issue for Sanders is whether he was truly able to make significant inroads on Clinton's front-runner status.

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