Winners and losers from the seventh Democratic presidential debate

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Winners
* Hillary Clinton: The former secretary of state came ready to fight on Sunday night. She kept her hit on Sanders's opposition to the automobile-industry bailout well hidden in the run-up to the debate to get maximum impact when she dropped it on his head. Ditto her attack on him being the lone Democratic-voting senator to vote against the Export-Import Bank. She is still not great when it comes to answering questions she doesn't want to answer. Her I'll-release-my-Wall-Street-speeches-when-everyone-else-does answer to a question about her high-paid speaking gigs was not very good. And she remains overly cautious as a candidate; when pressed on whether people at the Environmental Protection Agency should lose their jobs because of what happened in Flint, Clinton was unwilling to say they should -- a swing and a miss at a hanging curveball. Still, overall, this was a very solid showing by Clinton. On guns, on failing schools and on Flint, she was confident and effective.

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Losers
* Bernie Sanders: The senator from Vermont had effectively walked a fine line in the previous six debates when it came to attacking Clinton without coming across as bullying or condescending. He tripped and fell while trying to execute that delicate dance on Sunday night. Sanders's "excuse me, I'm talking" rebuttal to Clinton hinted at the fact that he was losing his temper with her. His "Can I finish, please?" retort ensured that his tone and his approach to someone trying to become the first female presidential nominee in either party would be THE story of the night.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/06/winners-and-losers-from-the-7th-democratic-presidential-debate/

I thought both of our candidates acquitted themselves admirably and would be infinitely better presidents than our opponents on the other side of the aisle.

[NowSam]

1. Ridiculous

Bernie won that debate hands down. I have been just trashing threads left and right rather than waste my time. This board is being taken over by paid shillaries.

[riversedge]

2. All you need to know about last night's debate,,,

Citizens Fed Up ?@CitizensFedUp 58m58 minutes ago

All you need to know about last night's debate,,,

Sanders is desperate!

[angstlessk]

3. Bernie was polite and did not interrupt Hillary as SHE spoke

Why is EVERYTHING sexist to you folks? It is RUDE to interrupt when one is speaking, my mama taught me that!

I am a 60 something woman, by the way

[Punkingal]

4. Bullshit...

She was rude and condescending...she interrupted him constantly, but her media supporters don't bother to comment on that. I thought audience reaction was just as much for Bernie as for her, and that's more important than the Washington Post's opinion.