Debate Night

February 25, 2020 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

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  1. Chris Matthews and MSNBC – view the end for the salient point about MSM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjGG1z30xHo

    Fake Links – real copy;
    Oligarchscalltheshots.com > Democrats are being swept up in idealism – but are they ignoring political realism?

    Oligarchscalltheshots.com > Bernie Sanders looks electable in surveys — but it could be a mirage

    Oligarchscalltheshots.com > Sanders’s Cuba comments are bad politics
    By Alex Ward  February 24

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  2. Ahead of South Carolina debate, new ad features uplifting speech of unity by campaign surrogate and rapper “Killer Mike” about shared burdens and hopes of the 99%.

    I shall never apologize for being born white, but I shall never have to apologize for being born blind or cruel, for I do not wear those labels well. I bear empathy.

    I grew up amongst sufficient food and a wall full of two sets of encyclopedias–damn did I have it good. I won’t sleep truly well until EVERY child gets the same.
    *BERNIE 2020!*

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/25/amid-establishment-onslaught-new-sanders-ad-declares-there-are-more-us-we-are

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  3. megasoid @ 2,

    Yes, THIS.

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  4. Papa @ 3

    RCP real clear politics Average

    Sanders 28.8 +11.4 spread
    Biden 17.4

    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html

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  5. 9:38 Buttigieg booed loudly while talking over Bernie’s Cuba remarks.

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  6. Juanita Jean Herownself says:

    I am embarrassed by every damn one of them. That was a train wreck in a pig sty covered in a backed up sewer.

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  7. Latest Polls All Polls

    North Carolina Democratic Presidential Primary
    PPP (D)

    Sanders20
    Biden23
    Bloomberg17
    Warren11
    Buttigieg9
    Klobuchar4
    Steyer3Gabbard1

    Biden +3

    North Carolina Democratic Presidential Primary
    Civitas (R)

    Sanders20
    Biden20
    Bloomberg20
    Warren9
    Buttigieg3
    Klobuchar6
    SteyerGabbard Tie

    Maryland Democratic Primary

    Goucher College

    Sanders24
    Biden18
    Bloomberg16
    Buttigieg7
    Warren6
    Klobuchar6

    Sanders +6

    2020 Democratic Presidential Nomination

    The Hill/HarrisX

    Sanders28
    Biden17
    Bloomberg19
    Warren8
    Buttigieg12
    Klobuchar3
    Steyer3Gabbard2

    Sanders +9

    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

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  8. Mods could not stop the run on yakking over each other. Weren’t the podium electro-shocks working?

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  9. The moderators could’t keep control. They let Bernie run roughshod over the rest of the candidates. And, someone allowed a Bloomberg ad to run during one of the commercials.

    When does the equal time rule kick in?

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  10. The socialist attacking the billionaire for defending the Politburo is not something I had on my BINGO card.

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  11. Gee, I sure am sorry I missed all that…not! I was part of a choir rehearsing tonight for a Sunday Black Awareness gospel celebration. Far more fun and definitely more constructive.

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  12. Voting for the ‘fridge is a better idea than the trumpkin!

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  13. I just can’t. Does ANYONE think these food fights are good for anything more than talking points for pundits? This is not a horse race to be handicapped. You have zero percent candidates scoring meaningless political points against actual candidates. This is how the Repubs got Trump, so the DNC thought it would be a good idea to do the same thing. Stupid.

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  14. CBS broke its own format when they allowed the six dwarfs to attack Bernie Sanders with impunity, while not giving Bernie a chance to respond. Those people, Major Garrett in particular, are not objective in the least. Their corporate bias comes shining through. Bernie can’t get elected fast enough. Just let the people vote.

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  15. Yes… what were those Bloomberg ads all about? Welcome to the Democratic Candidates Debate, sponsored and wholly owned by… one of the candidates! What country do we live in, again???

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  16. G Foresight says:

    Take the debate control away from news outlets with a bias for setting things up to generate talking points for future use. Put the debate back in control of an organization like the League of Women Voters. Have a mechanism for the public to submit questions about issues in advance and make sure the candidates answer the top three. For example, “What should happen if Donald Trump is defeated and then refuses to leave office?”

    https://www.salon.com/2020/02/26/democrats-arent-facing-the-big-question-what-will-they-do-if-trump-wont-leave-office/

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  17. @Paul #15 “Democratic Candidates Debate”

    Laugh about it, shout about it
    When you’ve got to choose
    Every way you look at this you lose.

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  18. charles phillips says:

    Oh my! Pardon my potty mouth, but those “candidates” reminded me ever so much of a pack of excrement eating bonobo monkeys, and I would be hard put at this moment to watch any further debates.

    Note to self: Fat Donny would have rocked in that format.

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  19. Opinionated Hussy says:

    Megasoid #7 – In NC, I wouldn’t trust anything Civitas puts out, but PPP tends to be quite accurate. My Spousal Unit and I will be voting this afternoon…for different people at the top of the ticket. But we both agree with the sign at the top…

    We’ll vote for a refrigerator for president, as long as it has a (D) after the name.

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  20. Grandma Ada says:

    I’m so glad I was out last night!

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  21. Larry from Colorado says:

    I’ll vote blue, but I wonder who!

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  22. Black activists discuss the debate last night on Democracy Now

    Bernie Sanders Gains Support in South Carolina as Billionaire Tom Steyer Draws Votes from Joe Biden

    Watch Full Show

    https://www.democracynow.org/2020/2/26/south_carolina_2020_democratic_primary

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  23. PAY TO PLAY… In full please.

    ‘Audience Full of Rich People’? $1,750+ Ticket Prices for Democratic Debate Spark Disgust

    Edit: “I think it speaks to the fundamental, endemic corruption of the Democratic Party establishment that you had to pay… multiple thousands of dollars to get into that room.”

    Unusually loud booing and jeering directed disproportionately at Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren during Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate—particularly when the senators criticized billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg—sparked probing questions about the class composition of the audience packed inside the Gaillard Center in Charleston, South Carolina.

    Journalists and other observers pointed to local reporting from Feb. 6 on the Charleston County Democratic Party’s offer of a $1,750 to $3,200 sponsorship package that included tickets to the Charleston debate and other events.
    “This is something that the average person doesn’t usually get to go to,” Colleen Condon, chair of the Charleston County Democratic Party, told local television news station WCSC-TV.

    Citing party officials, the outlet reported that “tickets are handed out to organizers like the Democratic National Committee, CBS, Twitter, and the Black Caucus Institute. Then, they are first given to paid sponsors and handed to campaigns to pass out extras.”

    Critics argued that the prohibitively high price of admission may help explain why the crowd appeared more favorable toward Bloomberg—who will not even be on the ballot in South Carolina’s primary Saturday—and loudly antagonistic toward Sanders and Warren, who were both booed and heckled on several occasions.

    Sanders was booed for highlighting Bloomberg’s “strong and enthusiastic base of support” among fellow billionaires:
    Warren was booed and jeered for pointing to inappropriate comments Bloomberg allegedly made to women employees:

    Asked about the crowd’s behavior in an interview following the debate, Sanders said “to get a ticket to the debate, you had to be fairly wealthy.”

    “Most working people that I know don’t spend $1,700 to get a ticket to a debate,” Sanders said.

    The Bloomberg campaign denied that it stacked the audience with paid supporters amid rampant social media speculation that the billionaire “purchased” a portion of the crowd to create the appearance of a strong performance following his poor showing in Las Vegas last week.

    “One might be forgiven for being somewhat skeptical that those attendees hadn’t been paid by the Bloomberg campaign for their presence and energy,” wrote the Washington Post’s Philip Bump. “This is a campaign, after all, that paid Instagram influencers to bolster his candidacy. The campaign paying people to send regular text messages to their friends promoting Bloomberg’s candidacy.

    Watch videos:
    https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/26/audience-full-rich-people-1750-ticket-prices-democratic-debate-sparks-disgust

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  24. Major Garrett has always been soap, now he looks like soap. Worst moderator evuh; the candidates should have staged a walk out. So we didn’t watch, but half heartedly listened. Took a snack break during the spin room bloviant, then channel surfed to gather exit poll thoughts. Those we enjoy since there’s a little trend detection available.

    Bernie and Liz, our two progressives, are experiencing ageism from an ironic source, the aged. Tom Steyer is the candidate voted most likely to drink a beer with likeable, while Biden has fallen to “only if he pays.” In the Republicon-lite lane, Magic Mike is shaking Buttigieg down for pocket change. Or, in delegate parlance, you know what I want, Pete (your delegates). Klobuchar is either running for VP or hopes to be the last woman standing thus the nominee. btw Her hopes are fading.

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  25. Regarding Sander’s Cuba comments:

    Sometimes bad people do good things.

    I’m not a Sanders person, but I think the hubbub about this comment has been over blown.

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  26. Ralph Wiggam says:

    I did not watch the debate because I have already voted. I have also decided that I don’t like any of the candidates remaining and I especially don’t like the fact that I have to vote for the one other people pick. Democracy sometimes does that to me.

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  27. Jane & PKM says:

    Kate Dungan, true. Nevada has the best Cubans, so it may have actually bolstered support for Senator Sanders here. Among the Batista-lites like Rubio in FL who wouldn’t vote D anyway, not a problem. Fact is people want change as highlighted by President Obama being a two term President. Republicons and Donnie* don’t offer that, so the poll numbers on both Senator Sanders and Warren beating the soap out of Donnie* are likely better than shown. A “good” algorithm is only as good as the questions asked.

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  28. Refrigerators, quite amusing. See if you can find the humor in this.

    Bloomberg Brags of Buying Congress in South Carolina Debate

    A slip of the tongue reveals the truth about the Bloomberg candidacy

    Even Trump Tweeted it!
    Watch: “… and put Nancy Pelosi in charge. I bought that……. I got that.”

    https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mike-bloomberg-debate-bought-south-carolina-congress-citizens-united-958322/

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  29. Would never pick a fight with J J over a photo but the cynicism of the comments over an advertisement of complacency was too much. I never heard his comments last night but I did read about his plan to defer entering the caucuses for a delegate haul after super tuesday. How that was supposed to work, I wasn’t sure. It was all supposition, until now.

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