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Hillary News & Views 1.19: Another Debate Win, Flint, MLK, and More Krugman Kudos
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/19/1471503/-Hillary-News-Views-1-19-Another-Debate-Win-Flint-MLK-and-More-Krugman-KudosBy Scan
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Greetings y’all! Lysis is on the road this week and asked me to cover HNV for a couple of days… and who am I to say no? We’re now less than two weeks from the Iowa caucuses and just had a great debate. This is a damn exciting time for political junkies.
As for who won the last face-off, obviously it depends on who you ask. However, Slate’s headline says it as plainly as possible and I agree completely... Hillary Clinton Won Sunday Night’s Debate:
Clinton was once again in superior form Sunday night in South Carolina, besting Sen. Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley in the last Democratic debate before the Iowa caucus.
Clinton’s debating performance is formidable because it combines her intelligence with a sincerity and level of conviction that often seem absent in other forums. When she opened the debate speaking of Martin Luther King Jr.’s role fighting for increased wages, she used his career as a subtle metaphor for what she is pitching: principled leadership with a strong practical bent. That mixture, along with her strength in close-quarter combat and an ability to wrap herself in President Obama’s record—something that played well to the Charleston crowd in the auditorium—was what won her this debate.
This was not a solitary opinion. Politico’s large group of Democratic insiders in the early states also thought it wasn’t close:
Bernie Sanders is riding a wave of momentum in Iowa and New Hampshire, but his performance in Sunday night’s debate failed to dislodge Hillary Clinton from her perch as national front-runner for the Democratic nomination.
That’s according to Democratic members of The POLITICO Caucus — a panel of leading strategists, operatives and activists in Iowa, New Hampshire and the two states that will follow with nominating contests next month: Nevada and South Carolina, where Sunday’s debate was held.
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Most Democratic insiders felt Clinton effectively dinged Sanders with her aggressive approach to Sanders’ opposition to some stricter gun laws and his statements supporting a single-payer health care system.
“She gave as good as she got,” said an Iowa Democrat. “Sanders at times seemed unable to control his emotions.”
“The conjuring up of Bernie Sanders' voting record on several issues took a nick out of his vaunted, saintly consistency,” added a Nevada Democrat.
Here’s how it looks in graph form:
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