It’s on: We’re getting four more Democratic debates

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

The campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have agreed on a rough schedule for four new debates over the next few months, according to various sources, a move that shows the Democratic primary is now set to shift into a higher gear and signals we may be headed for a long, drawn-out battle.

The four debates will be sanctioned by the Democratic National Committee, a spokesman for the DNC, Luis Miranda, confirms to me. “They will all be sanctioned,” Miranda says.

The first of these will be tomorrow night in New Hampshire, to air on MSNBC. The second will be in Flint, Michigan (as Hillary Clinton has requested) in March; the third will be in Pennsylvania in April, and the fourth will be in California in May, a source close to the talks confirms.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/02/03/its-on-looks-like-were-getting-four-more-democratic-debates/

[bkkyosemite]

1. She wouldn't do NY hmmm

[polichick]

4. Yeah - interesting.

[brooklynite]

8. Probably because she has NYC locked up?

[polichick]

9. Nice try.

[leftofcool]

29. Bernie wanted NY because he has not been able to get on the ballot there

Not enough signatures I believe.

[JackRiddler]

39. Untrue. See below reply to you.

[roguevalley]

41. he just posted 85000 signatures in new york. he'll get on unless deblasio steps on it.

he's a hillaryite.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

13. Or all the questions would be about her Wall St. buddies.

[greiner3]

16. Be careful when you use Hillary and 'locked up' in the same sentence!

[JackRiddler]

17. Thanks to the anti-democratic primary system, perhaps

and of course this is a total machine state. People would have had to register as D's in OCTOBER, though first-time voters voters (young people) have until Mar 25. We'll learn what the value of Cuomo and De Blasio endorsements is, they're getting pretty hated too. If it was up to CUNY - staff and students - the "1%" would be a rough estimate of her vote total.

So despite the establishment and Big Money advantages, don't be counting on it just yet. Democrats here love the Bernie message and it's a looooong way yet. We'll see how the Secretary of New Wars and Senator from Goldman Sachs weathers real primaries and more debates against a candidate who means what he says. The Clinton machine may turn out to be a paper tiger - or perhaps I should say cotton, since that's the material cash is made of.

Also, I'm sure you were thinking of NYS, not NYC. NYC, sure, among her banker buddies and gentry liberals who own Prospect Park townhouses, maybe.

[brooklynite]

18. No I was talking about NYC...

...If you're in the rest of NYS, then the location of the debate would be irrelevant.

As for your other point, keep reciting your "no REAL Democrat is supporting Hillary Clinton" mantra, if it makes you happy.

[JackRiddler]

22. Don't put words in my mouth, sir, thanks.

I said nothing like the matter you stuck in quotes.

We shall see how my beloved New York goes when the time comes. It's not like people here can't be bamboozled in large numbers, hence Clinton's tacit ally, Mayor Bloomberg. In any case it's certain I experience a very different slice of life here from you, as well as from the Clinton campaign donors who live in Hedgefund, Connecticut.

Keep that arrow pointing to the right! Off to the bodega, I am...

[leftofcool]

31. Did Bernie ever get enough signatures to get on the NY ballot?

[JackRiddler]

37. You better believe it.

Earlier today:

Bernie Sanders Camp Says It Turned in 85,000 Signatures to Make New York Ballot

http://observer.com/2016/02/bernie-sanders-camp-says-it-turned-in-85000-signatures-to-make-new-york-ballot/

[daleanime]

27. I do not think so....

it's a bad sign when a team doesn't want to play on their home court.

[JackRiddler]

38. Especially when you consider the reason is...

they know they can only lose.

New York is not her home court. Arkansas. Illinois, maybe. The Goldwater Girls. Tyson Foods.

Okay, Goldman Sachs. Gotta admit that's New York.

Also, shameless and illogical 9/11 exploitation. That's very New York.

[NowSam]

35. Ha ha ha ha ha

I wouldn't bet on New York if I was her.

[Renew Deal]

2. Is the Feb. 11 Milwaukee debate still one?

[NurseJackie]

3. Good! I'm very much looking forward to hearing more about Bernie's foreign policy views, AND...

... learning more about his foreign policy advisors. It should be very interesting.

[JackRiddler]

40. Here's a key point about his foreign policy advisors.

They are not neocons like Victoria Nuland.

[trillion]

5. Great news!

[rocktivity]

6. CUE THE VONAGE THEME!

So Calpurnica "Above All Reproach" Wasserman-Schultz has taken my suggestion of one per month!


rocktivity

[global1]

7. What Happened To The New York Debate That Bernie Requested?.....nt

[JackRiddler]

23. Obviously too scary.

Direct comparison of the rallies outside may not look good for the Secretary.

[daleanime]

28. Bingo!

[randys1]

10. Farout

[colsohlibgal]

11. Funny

Hillary, DWD, they all thought it was on the bag so they want very few debates. Now they are good with four more.

If MSNBC personnel are framing the questions in New Hamphire watch your back Bernie.

[NowSam]

36. Agree

A trap to spin like mad any possible moment. Question - Are votes electronic in NH or paper ballot?

[Bluenorthwest]

12. New Hampshire? Why just last week Debbie said that was out of the question.....

"We have no plans to sanction any further debates before the upcoming First in the Nation caucuses and primary, but will reconvene with our campaigns after those two contests to review our schedule."

September

Debbie can't be all that pleased to be steamrolled by democracy having been so sure in her refusals and confident in her reasoning.

[swilton]

21. At that state Democratic Party convention

she had no need to contrast Republicans to Democrats - a waste of oxygen

[MH1]

14. Too late.

I'll vote for the Dem nominee in November, even if it's a ham sandwich.

Other than that I don't really care any more.

The time to have debates was while there were still enough viewpoints in the race to make it interesting.


(I'm already burned out on the Clinton-Sanders show. Sigh.)

[trillion]

15. We all will to stop the "Republicans" from getting in. I put that in quotes becuase they're worse

than any republicans I've ever seen in a presidential election before and that takes work. Where did these monsters come from!

[JackRiddler]

24. Actually these Republicans are just the old ones...

30, 40 years later. Very predictable progression. Really not far at all from the mid-1990s, or for that matter Nixon (despite the bizarre rehabilitation of him as a leftist, and of Reagan as a hero). You'd have to go back to Eisenhower and the old Power Elite for anything substantively different, and who was his Veep again?

[JackRiddler]

19. Good for Clinton, by the way...

requesting one in Flint. Right on. Biggest disappointment Sanders has served up so far is that he didn't decry that crime in a big way sooner, although he's not mincing words about demanding a resignation of the governor.

[SunSeeker]

20. Sanders finally caved on his silly Brooklyn venue demand. nt

[JackRiddler]

25. Oh how silly!

[daleanime]

30. And the fact that he was the one.....

who wanted more then one additional debate? Also silly?

And thanks for the New York love, we love you too.

[SunSeeker]

32. What was silly was him insisting on Brooklyn before he'd do the NH debate.

I guess someone finally showed him the 1-19-16 video of him agreeing with Rachel to do the NH debate.

Neither he nor his campaign ever explained why they made that ultimatum.

[daleanime]

33. Because there's no history of anyone restricting.....

the number of debates. Never ever.

[SunSeeker]

34. There's no history of anyone insisting on a debate being venued in their boyhood home town.

That is what was holding everything up. Sanders apparently wanted to turn the debate into a free biographical ad.

[daleanime]

42. Tell me again.....

which state did Senator Clinton represent?

[SunSeeker]

43. Deflection, as usual. nt

[daleanime]

44. So if you know what it is....

why do you do it?

[SunSeeker]

45. You're the one changing the subject. nt

[JonLeibowitz]

26. We're really only getting 2 more. Weren't there already 2 more unscheduled but sanctioned debates?

Unless I am reading this incorrectly. Which is possible. n/t

[Arby]

46. Why?

I hear nothing new from any candidate - RepugnantCons or DemProgressives - and the same ol', same ol' rhetoric, has become mundane ...