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Seth Abramson
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What the candidates brought tonight:

Delaney: GOP talking points
Sanders: a reasonably badass "Hulk Smash" vibe
Hickenlooper: ?
O'Rourke: another solid performance media will attack
Warren: genius, compassion
Bullock: the tone of a half-drunk guy gently arguing with you in a bar
What the candidates brought tonight (2/2):

Klobuchar: decaf
Ryan: a good facsimile of the fallacious but earnest views of blue-collar Dems
Williamson: a VHS of "The Neverending Story" she wants the other candidates to watch with her *sober*

Just saying what they got *tonight*.
PS/ Pete always kills it in debates, no surprise there. This is a strength of his.
PS2/ I think Klobuchar heard me.
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I hadn't realized until today that concealed-carry laws can create mayhem during mass shootings in a way that has nothing to do with crossfire: bystanders will report anyone brandishing a gun as a possible shooter—meaning first responders have no idea how many suspects there are.
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So much of what's crappy about these debates comes from candidates' mistaken belief that at *this* point in the process what Americans want to hear is why they think their *competitors'* ideas are wrong, when I'd be perfectly happy to just hear everyone describe their *own plan*.
Don't get me wrong, the debate's moderators can then be used to challenge individual plans, but I do not need to hear the *candidates* develop detailed rhetorical attacks on one another's ideas at *this* point in the process. Maybe that's just me, but it's where I'm at right now.
Every time I see a Democratic candidate spar with another candidate in a negative rather than constructive way, I'm sorry but *at this point in the process* it makes me like *both* those candidates *less*. That's not the result these debates are supposed to create, I don't think.
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Seems to me Beto beating Trump by 12 points in Texas is one of the biggest pieces of 2020 news in a while. If Beto can put Texas in play to terrorize the GOP in 2020 the Dems have no choice but to find some way (POTUS, VPOTUS, assured cabinet member) to keep him near to the fold.
1/ The Beto-Trump Texas poll also propels Beto into 2020 relevance no matter where his polls sit now, because he's instantly become one of a small number of (at a minimum) top VP picks in this field. And the VP pick almost *has* to come from this giant, talented Democratic field.
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POTUS: Biden, Warren, Sanders, Harris, Buttigieg

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Victoria Brownworth 🏳️‍🌈
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Tonight's debate ranked from best to why am I even ranking them.
Rankings are not endorsements. I don't have a candidate, I'm
just a reporter.

1. Bernie and Warren tied.
2. Buttigieg
3. Williamson
4. Klobuchar
5. Beto
No one else belongs on that stage.
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If you think that this country wants candidates like Ryan, Bullock, Hickenlooper and Delaney you are not reading the room.
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Warren and Williamson both made similar statements about the need to stop spouting GOP talking points to claim some centrist ground.
They are correct.
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It stuns me that people purporting to be Democrats or "resisters" are still devoting their time to attacking @RepAOC. This is such a blatant embrace of GOP talking points. If you don't like change, you're in the wrong party. And if you can't Google the work she's done, be quiet.
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As documented by @TheAtlantic's always-excellent @JamesFallows, one of the underappreciated factors in 2016 election is the failure of #journalism to do its job (one Jim story-- he has many others).
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#GOP salivating over someone 6yrs older than Trump with reams of oppo on him and a phalanx of haters among Democrats does not equal "a lot of people." Sanders polls at 12% & #Midterms were about women & POC.

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