you re going have a great night if, you re going to look your best, if you re going to surprise and delight the people who know you best with how much of your best you put out there to the world, if you re going to have a night like that, the only thing you might also wish for in that great circumstance would be that everybody happened to be looking at you when you had that great moment. when you have that great night. and last night it turns out everybody was looking. if you re looking for a historical comparison of a previous presidential campaign, you can t look at 2012. that was the incumbent democratic president running for re-election. there is no comparison there for this year. the last contest we can compare to this year s election was the blockbuster democratic primary in 2007 and 2008 between hillary clinton and barack obama and lots of other compelling democrats besides. that s the point of comparison. that s the historically
whether or not it s come porting with the facts, even though, the new york times news coverage of last night s debate was absolutely glowing about hillary clinton s performance. and the op-ed page in the new york times was ecstatic about what the democrats showed off collectively in this performance. they titled the op-ed the grown-ups take the stage. for those zparg about the future of american politics, here was proof that it doesn t have to revolve around candidates who pride themselves on knowing nothing or on believing that governing is all about destroying government. referring, obviously, to the republican candidates for president there. new york times continues in the editorial today, civility was a big winner. the discussion of real issues. so it was a really good night for democrats. and democrats and liberal minded media outlets and folk who s watched it and observers of politics right now are psyched about it. and you know what? in life and in politics, if you re g
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 some republican style kids table with lincoln chafy and jim webb. so martin o malley last night had a very good night at the first democratic presidential debate. now, the a
last night was the hill that every candidate has to climb and bernie has climbed it because he s been here for his whole career and that is are you speak with conviction? for the most part, she was. 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
whether or not you are a supporter of hillary clinton for president of the united states, everybody kind of has to admit she had a great night in last night s first democratic presidential debate. want to know who else had a great night? bernie sanders. cnn did a focus group right after their own debate last night and a majority of people in the cnn focus group thought that all in all, bernie sanders won that debate. the fusion network did the same thing. and that focus group also thought that bernie sanders won that debate. even fox news did a focus group with democratic voters in florida and they, too, thought that bernie sanders won that debate. the bernie sanders campaign announced they raised nearly $1.4 million last night after the debate ended as donations poured in to support senator sanders. senator sanders was also the most searched candidate on google last night. he was the most discussed candidate on facebook. he was the most tweeted about candidate on twitter.