Who's Watching Tonight's Debate?

[What Would Jesus Do?]

I watched the previous 4, so count me in. Anyone else?

Supposedly being streamed on CNN.com for us cable-cutters.

A chance for the minor candidates to emerge from the shadows. But if I had to bet, I'd bet it's more likely to solidify Hillary's lead. You never know, though. I would love to see Bernie and Martin get a bump. It will also be interesting to see what Webb's pitch is. He could be a viable candidate, but he needs to express some strong views. So far he seems to be reluctant to take firm positions. Or maybe that's just bad reporting.

Here's who's on the stage, for those who may not know:

Clinton
Sanders
O'Malley
Webb
Chafee

It will be interesting to see what differences there are between the questions the Ds get asked and those the Rs were asked. For example, will we see any good discussion of climate change? The TPP? Gun control?

I certainly hope it's not yet another debate where half the questions are "Donald Trump said this, what do you say...?" I wonder if we'll have a variation on that: "Hillary (or Bernie) said this, what do you say?" But I don't think that will play too well, because the comments of H and B lack the outrageousness of Trump's remarks.

 

[unIowa]

I will watch some of it but will be mostly focused on the Mets taking down the Dodgers tonight.

Sounds like CNN is trying to set it up as a pillow fight so the candidates don't really go after one another (my guess is to cover up for how bad of a candidate Hillary is).

 

[naturalmwa]

I’m sooo freakin’ excited!

 

[Funky Bunch]

This guy

 

[Pepperman]

I will try to remember to tune in. I really do expect a lot of the questions to be along the lines of:

"We all know Republicans are stupid, but please enlighten us as to how you can continue to blame all of your future problems on them?"

"Isn't it awful when guns kill innocent people? What do you think we could do about that?"

"Do you favor supporting elderly people or letting them die like the Republican candidates would?"

 

[HawkeyeHitman]

I would rather watch paint dry.

 

[ICWestfan]

You freakin commies. There's baseball on tonight! You know, America's pastime?

 

[Foxclone]

I am watching the sausage fest and everyone giving hugs and high fives and talking around the question.

 

[thewop]

I will watch some of it but will be mostly focused on the Mets taking down the Dodgers tonight.

Sounds like CNN is trying to set it up as a pillow fight so the candidates don't really go after one another (my guess is to cover up for how bad of a candidate Hillary is).

Actually, it does seem like a pillow fight. "candidate x, when so and so tried to do this, it was terrible, but when you did it, it was great! why?"

This is boring. People who supported a candidate still well, people who didn't already, won't.

 

[Catfish_ Crazy]

I watched the previous 4, so count me in. Anyone else?

Supposedly being streamed on CNN.com for us cable-cutters.

A chance for the minor candidates to emerge from the shadows. But if I had to bet, I'd bet it's more likely to solidify Hillary's lead. You never know, though. I would love to see Bernie and Martin get a bump. It will also be interesting to see what Webb's pitch is. He could be a viable candidate, but he needs to express some strong views. So far he seems to be reluctant to take firm positions. Or maybe that's just bad reporting.

Here's who's on the stage, for those who may not know:

Clinton
Sanders
O'Malley
Webb
Chafee

It will be interesting to see what differences there are between the questions the Ds get asked and those the Rs were asked. For example, will we see any good discussion of climate change? The TPP? Gun control?

I certainly hope it's not yet another debate where half the questions are "Donald Trump said this, what do you say...?" I wonder if we'll have a variation on that: "Hillary (or Bernie) said this, what do you say?" But I don't think that will play too well, because the comments of H and B lack the outrageousness of Trump's remarks.

Do you believe anything that any politician says?

 

[Herkmeister]

Actually, it does seem like a pillow fight. "candidate x, when so and so tried to do this, it was terrible, but when you did it, it was great! why?"

This is boring. People who supported a candidate still well, people who didn't already, won't.

Pillow fight is right. The slime bag Hillary should have been dismembered.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

[from CNN email]

What is America's greatest foreign policy threat? At CNN debate, Hillary Clinton said nuclear weapons in the hands of terrorists. Martin O'Malley said a nuclear Iran. Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee pointed to chaos in the Middle East, and Bernie Sanders said climate change.