point, facebook like do not make votes like. just because you have thousands of facebook likes doesn t mean these people are actually going to show up for you. this is not american idol, you have to go out, get out in the cold and put your ballot out there and punch the ticket. and convincing the people to do that to be fair, the question was who won the debate, which is very different than who is going to win the election? which i think is important who watched the debate go ahead. i was just going to say focus groups are so small how many hundreds of people fewer than you would need to do a national poll that would be reputable or do you have sitting in that room. all right, let s go to the conclusive proof that bernie sanders really arrived in that debate. donald trump is now attacking him. let s listen to this. i watched hillary clinton last night with we re going to give this, we re going to give that. she has to give everything away,
that was something close to the real hillary clinton last night and the politics of authenticity and conviction i think almost always wins. maria teresa, i thought it was the best performance i have seen her deliver, including senate debates in new york which were good. this was better. but it s what howard is saying. you saw a genuine hillary clinton coming out. you saw the authenticity that people have been wanting to see and she didn t seem rehearsed or practiced and it was almost as if she knew the only other person she was really debating on that stage wasn t on that stage, that it was biden. the number of times she mentioned her closeness to president obama was trying to signal biden, don t come in and two, you don t need biden, you don t have me. josh, we know, if you know anything about debates, we know the line about president obama trusts my judgment was written, was rehearsed, was memorized but was delivered as if it had just occurred to her.
bernie sanders, whether or not you re a supporter of bernie sanders for president of the united states, bernie sanders, you have to admit, had a great night last night in the first democratic presidential debate. you want to know who else had a great night? this guy who now more americans than ever can confidently say is a man named martin o malley. last night s first democratic presidential debate was his chance to basically introduce himself to a much larger swath of the american people than could have recognized him before last night. but he did that interduction. it happened in very positive terms. there s no such thing as a complaint about martin o malley s performance last night in that debate. and most importantly for him, i think it s pretty clear that his performance made him seem more like a bernie sanders and hillary clinton caliber candidate than the kind of guy who ought to be relegated to
thank you, bernie. thank you. i love that he started that by saying, let me say something that may not be great politics. maybe bernie sand serz redefining what great politics is. i mean, senator sanders, if you know anything about the trajectory of his career, you know two things, number one, entirely consistent on every major policy issue throughout his career the number one. number, two he s never been a negative campaigner in his life in any of the campaigns at any level of government. he doesn t personally attack people. he doesn t go negative. he just doesn t. and if you know that about him, maybe it should not come as a shock for him to neighboring defense of hillary clinton last night, for him to interject into that discussion in which he was not involved to say i want in on this. i want to be on record here saying this is not a scandal. people are tired of it. and he s basically saying i m not going to participate in the way the media is treating this issue. i think we sho
it was a good night for the republican party overall. great night for most of the democratic candidates up there on that stage. but we did learn one really specific, really important thing last night about what will change in washington if we do elect a democratic president to succeed president obama. we learned one really important thing last night that will be really different about his presidency from a democratic presidency that might come next. i m not sure anybody else has picked up on this yet. it was a quick moment in the debate. i think it is a doozy. and that s next.