Winners and losers from the second Democratic presidential debate

[elleng]

(I HATE to play games with this, but some interesting info here.)

The three Democrats running for the 2016 presidential nomination gathered in Iowa on Saturday night for the second debate of the campaign. Coming just 24 hours after the attacks in Paris, the first 30 minutes of the two-hour debate at Drake University focused on foreign policy before it turned to economic inequality, health care and other domestic issues.

We annotated -- and are still annotating! -- the full debate transcript. I also picked a handful of debate winners and losers. Here are my picks.

Winners
* Martin O'Malley: When you are as low in state and national polling as the former Maryland governor is, simply getting people to know — or look up — your name is a win. And O'Malley did that on Saturday night — literally.

((Check the google searches.))

He also showed a willingness to go at Hillary Rodham Clinton aggressively and unapologetically. And to tout his record as having accomplished many of the liberal goals that Clinton and Bernie Sanders just talk about. His riff on why candidates shouldn't use the phrase "boots on the ground" was powerful, even if he did use an anecdote (hate!) to make his point.

It wasn't a perfect debate performance from O'Malley; his response on the crisis that he had dealt with in his life that would prepare him for the presidency — he didn't have one — was really bad, particularly because it directly followed Clinton citing her involvement in the death of Osama bin Laden in response to the same question. Still, taken in its totality, the debate was one of the better moments for O'Malley in this race.. >>>

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/14/winners-and-losers-from-the-second-democratic-presidential-debate/

[99th_Monkey]

1. Winner: Bernie Sanders on Domestic Policy - from same article

* Domestic policy Bernie Sanders: The Vermont socialist's passion shines through when he is talking about the need to break up the big banks, the threat posed by economic inequality and the necessity of campaign finance reform. If you are an undecided Democrat, Sanders's answers on virtually every domestic policy question likely made your heart soar. One major mistake: Sanders, again, passed on a chance to use a question about Clinton's e-mails to make a broader point about the sort of choice facing Democratic voters.

[bigdarryl]

3. Unfortunately this election isn't going to be mainly about

Domestic policy in light of ISIS attacks.The media will see to thst.And to be honest Terrorism isn't Sanders strong suit.His opening statement on Paris was baffling to me

[99th_Monkey]

4. I agree Sanders opening statement was not one of his better moments. -nt-

[Doubledee]

2. I have to agree

O'Malley made me notice him, for the first time take him seriously too. Think him a possible VP nominee.